18-month-old child is not breathing: two police officers save him

The incident happened in Acireale, in the province of Catania. The intervention of the steering wheel was decisive

ROME – A one and a half year old child with serious respiratory problems was saved thanks to the intervention of police officers. The incident happened in recent days in Acireale, in the province of Catania, where there were moments of particular concern for a woman who, in desperation, was moving with her child in her arms among the cars passing by in via Torquato Tasso.

FIRST AID

At the sight of a police car, the woman stopped the officers and asked for help for her child who couldn’t breathe. The police tried to calm the woman, of Maghreb origin, in an apparent state of shock, and immediately took care of the child who was struggling to get air, despite having a clear airway.

THE TRAVEL TO THE HOSPITAL

At that point the officers noticed the passage of an Italian Red Cross car: they stopped the vehicle to ask the two volunteers on board to accompany the mother and son to the hospital, arranging a service of emergency transport.

The police car acted as a relay to allow the Red Cross car to make its way through the traffic, while the operations room of the police station informed the emergency room doctors of the little boy’s arrival. Once he arrived at the hospital, in code red, the little one was visited and treated.

THE AGENTS THEN PAID A VISIT TO THE CHILD

The following day the police officers involved in the rescue, Giuseppe and Fabio, visited the little boy, making a few smiles and donating some gadgets from the State Police.