Child in serious but stable condition after near-drowning
A child and a teenager have been hospitalised in separate near-drowning incidents south of Brisbane and on the Gold Coast.
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A CHILD and a teenager have been hospitalised in separate near-drowning incidents south of Brisbane and on the Gold Coast.
A young girl was rushed to hospital in a serious but stable condition following a near drowning incident at Logan this morning.
Emergency services were called to a private residence at Jimboomba about 10.05am following reports of a young girl in a near-drowning situation.
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The rescue helicopter was sent to the residence but the child was driven to hospital in an ambulance.
She was in a serious but stable condition at the Queensland Children’s Hospital.
A teenage boy was taken to hospital after nearly drowning in a pool at Surfers Paradise this afternoon.
Paramedics were called to the scene at around 4.00pm, where the boy had been pulled from a swimming pool at a Surfers Paradise resort complex.
The teenager was treated on site for breathing difficulties, before being transported to hospital in a stable condition.
The incidents come just one day after three people, including two children, were taken to hospital following near-drowning incidents near Hervey Bay and Townsville.
Queensland Ambulance Service and Surf Life Saving Queensland are urging swimmers to take care in the water.
The recent near drownings also follow a spate of fatalities and near-fatalities, including a seven-year-old Japanese boy who died in hospital after an incident at Cairns Esplanade Lagoon, an elderly man who drowned at Kings Beach, Caloundra, two people who were pulled from a pool at Brendale north of Brisbane, and a three-year-old boy pulled from South Bank Parklands lagoon in Brisbane.
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