{"id":47693,"date":"2026-07-06T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-5-year-old-was-left-in-a-serious-condition-after-experiencing-a-near-drowning-incident-in-scottburgh\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T20:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:46:08","slug":"a-5-year-old-was-left-in-a-serious-condition-after-experiencing-a-near-drowning-incident-in-scottburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/a-5-year-old-was-left-in-a-serious-condition-after-experiencing-a-near-drowning-incident-in-scottburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"A 5-year-old was left in a serious condition after experiencing a near-drowning incident in Scottburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IPSS Medical Rescue responded to reports of a drowning at a hotel in Scottburgh on the KZN South Coast.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival of paramedics, it was established that a 5-year-old girl got into difficulty whilst swimming in the hotel pool. On-site clinic staff performed CPR and managed to successfully resuscitate the child.<\/p>\n<p>She was stabilised on scene and transported to a nearby hospital under the care of an IPSS Medical Rescue Advanced Life Support paramedic.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second near-drowning incident today. Once again, early CPR prevented a more tragic outcome.<\/p>\n<p>082 391 1911&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=77883&#038;page=a-5-year-old-was-left-in-a-serious-condition-after-experiencing-a-near-drowning-incident-in-scottburgh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPSS Medical Rescue responded to reports of a drowning at a hotel in Scottburgh on the KZN South Coast. On arrival of paramedics, it was established that a 5-year-old girl got into difficulty whilst swimming in the hotel pool. On-site clinic staff performed CPR and managed to successfully resuscitate the child. She was stabilised on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/A%205-year-old%20was%20left%20in%20a%20serious%20condition%20after%20experiencing%20a%20near-drowning%20incident%20in%20Scottburgh.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-47693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/A%205-year-old%20was%20left%20in%20a%20serious%20condition%20after%20experiencing%20a%20near-drowning%20incident%20in%20Scottburgh.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}