Toddler Pulled From Pool Remains In Critical Condition
Posted May 28, 2010 5:24 pm.
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A four-year-old girl remained in critical condition Friday after being pulled from a Brampton pool without vital signs.
The child, Zahara – along with her mother and twin sister – had been visiting a home near Bovaird Dr. W. and Mississauga Rd. Thursday, when she went missing.
Shortly before 5pm, the family found Zahara in the backyard swimming pool unconscious.
A neighbour, Margaret Horan, was one of the first people who rushed to help after the child was pulled out of the water.
“I went into the backyard. The man was holding her head. There was someone rubbing her chest, but it didn’t look like CPR. So I just said, ‘Hold on. Let me in here. I started doing compressions,” Horan said.
She performed CPR on Zahara until paramedics took over and transported the child to hospital.
This is the second such incident in the past week. Last Thursday, a toddler drowned in a pool while on a visit to a Kitchener home.
