Child’s near-drowning ordeal


Athenkosi Mvane
10 December 2012

A seventeen month old boy is fighting for his life in a Durban hospital after a drowning incident in Kloof this morning.

Reports indicate that the residents noticed the child floating in the pool, they pulled the child from the water and called for help.

Chris Botha said that they arrivedat the scene and started to resuscitate the child.

“The child was then put into a ventilator” he said.

“After the initial stabilisation, which took around 40 minutes, the child when was transferred to the Nkosi Albert Luthuli hospital where he is recovering in ICU” he added.

 

 

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