Medical helicopter transports 5-year-old boy with drowning symptoms

The child suffered the accident in the pool of a hotel in Mogán

Around 18:10 h this afternoon an incident was reported at a hotel pool involving a five‑year‑old boy.

The 112 emergency report stated that “at the initial moment of assistance the child presented moderate drowning symptoms, without complications, and was transferred by medicalized helicopter to the Hospital Universitario Materno Infantil de Canarias.”

At the time mentioned, the Canary Islands Government’s Emergency and Security Coordination Center (CECOES) 112 received an alert indicating that the boy had been removed from the hotel pool with drowning symptoms and that the on‑site lifeguard was providing first aid.

Medical staff from the Emergency Mobile Unit (SUC) evaluated and treated the child, then transferred him by medicalized ambulance to the Arguineguín dock, where a medicalized helicopter was waiting to evacuate him to the aforementioned hospital.

Police resources activated by the Coordination Center collaborated with other emergency units and carried out the necessary procedures.