Grimbergen, A week after the 2-year-old Liz from Jette almost drowned in the paddling pool in Strombeek-Bever to the parents of the girl, the two rescuers that their daughter from drowning save thanked. They got Friday a box of pralines and a range of bedankingswoordjes. With the girl it goes, also thanks to the quick intervention of the rescuers and the care in the hospital – already a much better.
this age are already happily around, and again as playful as a 2-year-old is supposed to be. There is nothing that shows that Liz from Jette last week Saturday egg so after drowned in the paddling pool in Strombeek-Bever. She was together with her parents and her 7-year-old brother to swimming in the pool when all of a sudden, miss ran. “After they are already several times the slide slid, let Liz know that she was tired, that we decided to take the whole family in the plonsbadje to play”, says mama Lotte back to that particular Saturday. “Because her brother quickly got sick, he wanted me in a different part of the pool to show his all in the swimming lessons at school had taught. What we, however, did not know, was that Liz followed us was. My husband thought I got it and spent all our belongings in the plonsbadje. Seconds later I saw my daughter on the edge of the pool while a savior over took her.”
Water in lungs
The girl was a yet unclear way in the swimming pool trouble. The 24-year-old Yorick Woutermaertens, who barely a month and a half as a rescuer in the paddling pool to get started and at the time of the incident just as a customer in the pool, got Liz out of the water. “My colleague Aki started right away with the cpr,” says Yorick. “I took out the oxygen equipment and was my colleague.”
The emergency services were called and She was taken to the hospital. “Thanks to the good care in the hospital if it is Monday night again to go home,” says Lotte. “She had a small amount of water in the lungs. We need her more antibiotics to prevent the pool water in her lungs came to infections would lead.”