Quick-thinking neighbours save 2-year-old Durban girl found unresponsive in swimming pool

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Quick-thinking neighbours save 2-year-old Durban girl found unresponsive in swimming pool
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A KwaZulu-Natal mother found her 2-year-old daughter floating in their swimming pool in Avaco, Durban, on Sunday morning. The toddler was unresponsive.

Concerned neighbours rushed over, performed first aid and resuscitated the little girl, while her mother watched in horror.KZN community chases down murder suspect after guest house chef stabbed 15 times

“Reaction officers were immediately dispatched and on arrival discovered that the child had been successfully resuscitated by neighbours who commenced cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the unresponsive child,” RUSA said. The scary incident unfolded at the family's Mill Road home. Netcare 911 spokesperson Shawn Herbst confirmed the incident:"We arrived and offered advanced life support treatment on the child, ventilated the child, put the patient in a helicopter to hospital."

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