For the second time in the same week a child nearly lost its life in a swimming pool in the province of Málaga.
The first case was in Mijas when two policia local managed to save the life of a 2-year-old Russian boy.
The latest case, which occurred on the 21st of last month, took place in a communal swimming pool belonging to the Urbanización Los Huertos in Nerja. Doctor Anthony Hobbs, an Irish tourist, managed to get the 3-year-old girl out of the water where she had been on the point of drowning.
Thanks to his medical knowledge he was able to resuscitate the girl, bringing her back to consciousness within a few seconds of beginning first-aid procedure.
The girl was taken to the area hospital in Vélez-Málaga where she underwent a check up and was soon discharged.
The Nerja municipal police said that had it not been for Doctor Hobbs’s rapid response, it could have ended in tragedy, as was the case in Mijas on the 18th of August when a 2-year-old Scottish child died in a neighbour’s swimming pool.
(News: Nerja, Axarquia, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia)
As a former Building Inspector with the City of Los Angeles, “we” have more private swimming pools than most of the mid-west put together!
Due to several drownings in the late 80’s, an Emergency State session enacted a requirement for an alarm unit to alert parent/guardian of a child existing to the pool area. (Outside entry gate laws did NOT address the entry from within the house).
I struggled to get a Test Lab special door alarm device approved back in the late 1990’s. It complied with the California Law and was very effective and under $50 bucks. Even after all the work to reach a Letter of Approval from the Building department, the lobby for the pool construction industry enlisted lesser (read ‘cheaper’) alarm units to be approved for use – most of these are easily inactivated or disposed of and the pool left unguarded.
Back then, the City Council was also lobbied on a ‘BEHIND CLOSED DOOR SESSION’ … and the lesser alarm units were approved for use! Check out George Risk Industries for further inquiry as to door alarm protection.