The 10-year-old girl who was hospitalised at the Makario Hospital in Nicosia after being found unconscious in a hotel pool in Protaras on Saturday, where she was holidaying with her family, is now off the ventilator and her condition has improved.
According to Steve Theodoulou, Spokesperson for the Famagusta Police Directorate, “at around 3 pm on Saturday, August 24, the Paralimni Police Station received information from the Famagusta General Hospital that a minor girl had been pulled unconscious from a hotel pool in Protaras.”
Officers from the Paralimni Police Station “attended the Famagusta General Hospital and established that the girl is approximately 10 years old and from the UK. She was staying at the aforementioned hotel for a holiday with her family. Due to the seriousness of her condition, she was intubated and transferred by ambulance to the Makario Hospital in Nicosia, where she is currently receiving treatment.”
Theodoulou further stated that “the girl has been taken off the ventilator, she is awake, and her condition, according to the treating physicians, has improved.”
He also mentioned that “the Police are continuing to take statements from individuals who were at the hotel pool and may have witnessed the incident, as well as from hotel staff and medical staff at the Famagusta General Hospital, in order to ascertain the circumstances under which the 10-year-old was found unconscious in the hotel pool.”
The Paralimni Police Station is continuing its investigations.
(information from CNA)
