This Sunday, June 4, 2023, a tragedy was narrowly avoided in the town of Nègrepelisse in Tarn-et-Garonne. A little boy drowned in the family swimming pool of his home, in cardiopulmonary arrest, it was a neighbor who saved his life.
This is information that cannot be repeated enough, a survey published in 2021 reveals that children under the age of 6 constitute more than one in five drownings in France. Alarming figures which reflect these numerous news items, 1480 children died from drowning in 2021. Last April, it was in Cannes that a two-year-old child died after drowning in the family swimming pool and another two-and-a-half-year-old died drowned in an inflatable pool in the small town of Bas-en-Basset.
This Sunday, June 4, 2023, it is a new drama which affected the small town of Nègrepelisse in the Tarn-et-Garonne. A four-year-old boy drowned in family pool of his home, found in cardio-respiratory arrest, his family immediately alerted the emergency services. It’s finally a neighbor present who intervened and who was able to provide emergency care in order to resuscitate the child.
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The arrival of emergency services on site enabled the child to benefit from first aid from firefighters after regaining consciousness. He was then transported by helicopter to Purpan children’s hospital in Toulouse. The mayor of Nègrepelisse, Morgan Tellier, spoke after going there, he welcomed the solidarity present between neighbors and the happy end of this accident.
This heroic act is unfortunately not the case for all drownings on French territory. According Public Health France, drowning is the most common cause of accidental death in everyday life among people under 25. This is why the government has decided to make this subject a priority, a shock prevention campaign was deployed on June 1, 2023 in order to prevent these more frequent accidents as summer approaches.