{"id":112823,"date":"2016-02-06T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T14:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=112823"},"modified":"2016-02-06T16:16:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T14:16:38","slug":"paramedics-resuscitate-three-year-old-drowning-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/06\/paramedics-resuscitate-three-year-old-drowning-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramedics resuscitate three-year-old drowning victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netcare 911 paramedics raced to the scene of a drowning in Dinwiddie this morning (February 6) at 10.50am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReports from the scene indicated that a three-year-old boy was found floating in a private swimming pool.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cExact details as to the events leading up to him falling in will remain a subject for police investigation,\u201d said Chris Botha, media liaison officer at Netcare 911.<\/p>\n<p>The Netcare 911 advanced life support paramedic and his team arrived at the scene and found the child totally unresponsive.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The medical team immediately started with advanced life support resuscitation and called for the Netcare 911 medical helicopter to assist with the transport of the child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParamedics worked fervently for some time and you could see the relief and joy in everyone when they managed to get the child\u2019s heart to start beating again, and to top it all as the helicopter landed, the child started with spontaneous respiration,\u201d said Botha.<\/p>\n<p>After the child was stabilised, he was loaded on board the helicopter and then under the constant care of an emergency care practitioner, they airlifted him to a specialised facility for further care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/100072\/celebrating-10-wonderful-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrating 10 wonderful years<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89234\/germiston-drowning-incident-leaves-child-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">Young boy drowns in Lambton pool<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='651879fc71a949799c689f9fed17ee4d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young boy is in a critical condition after falling into a swimming pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":112825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1324,6501,979,969,2734,2111,6438,9707],"class_list":["post-112823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-dinwiddie","tag-drowning","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-netcare-911","tag-paramedics","tag-swimming-pool"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["dinwiddie","drowning","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","netcare 911","paramedics","swimming pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}