An Irish child is fighting for her life today in hospital after being rescued from a near-drowning in her Majorcan hotel pool.
The seven-year-old girl was rushed to an intensive care unit “in a critical condition” after the alarm was raised just after 3.30pm on Monday.
On Tuesday morning, June 21, sources at Son Espases Hospital in the Majorcan capital Palma confirmed she remained “critical” in its paediatric intensive care unit. Local reports had initially said the girl was British but a source in the hospital today confirmed she is Irish.
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She was rushed to hospital from the four star hotel HYB Eurocalas Hotel in the east coast resort of Calas de Mallorca. It describes itself online as an all-inclusive family-friendly aparthotel a ten-minute stroll from the beach..
A spokeswoman for a regional government-run emergency coordination centre said: “We took a call around 3.40pm on Monday to say lifeguards had spotted a young girl lying motionless on the bottom of the pool and dived in to rescue her.
“They performed CPR on her after pulling her out of the water because she had gone into cardiac arrest.
“Paramedics continued to try to revive her after reaching the scene and got her breathing again in the back of the ambulance.
“She was taken to Son Espases Hospital.”
No-one from the HYB Eurocalas Hotel, an hour’s drive from Palma and near to the Caves of Drach which is one of Majorca’s top tourist attractions, was available for comment on Tuesday morning.
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