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A three-year-old British girl is fighting for her life after being pulled unconscious from a hotel swimming pool in Rhodes.
The girl remains in critical condition in a children’s intensive care unit at the Heraklion University Hospital (PAGNI) on the popular holiday island, where she was airlifted on Tuesday night after consuming a large amount of water.
The child was found to have severe brain swelling and is likely to be brain dead, according to the hospital’s director.
She underwent additional tests immediately after surgery to ‘decongest the brain’.
The girl was found at the bottom of a hotel swimming pool, where she had remained for several minutes, in the Lardos area.
A British-born doctor, also a guest at the hotel, rushed to provide first aid to the child until an ambulance arrived.
She was first taken to Rhodes General Hospital, where she was intubated before being airlifted to PAGNI.
The child’s uncle, who was supervising her, has since been arrested by Greek police along with the hotel manager.
The girl remains in critical condition in a children’s intensive care unit at the PAGNI hospital on the popular holiday island, where she was airlifted last night
The hospital’s director, Giorgos Chalkiadakis, said they are ‘waiting for the next few hours to see how she will react.’
He said: ‘The child was airlifted at approximately 10pm from the Rhodes hospital where he was being treated, after a cardiopulmonary arrest, following drowning.
‘Great efforts were made there and the child’s heart ‘get going’.
‘The child is being treated in the Children’s ICU, in critical condition, and we are waiting for the next few hours to see how she will react. I hope and wish that our efforts will pay off,’ he added.
A preliminary investigation into the incident is ongoing.
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