He was suffocating, he could no longer breathe. The baby was already cyanotic. The mother and grandmother came out on the landing screaming. "He's dying, he's dying, he's not breathing," they shouted. It happened yesterday in the Villaggio Santa Rosalia neighborhood in Palermo in one of the many condominiums. The luck of the little boy of just two months was that Alessandro Di Franco, 24 years old, had returned upstairs for a few days, who in a month will complete the degree course in nursing that he is following in Reggio Emilia. The young man from Palermo has not lost courage. Surrounded by relatives and many panicked condominiums, he took the child and practiced the Heimlich maneuver. Moves studied and re-studied on the mannequins that managed to unblock the baby's airways, saving him. "AND'it was a providential, almost divine intervention - say the condominiums - that young man was with his parents for a few days of vacation waiting to return to Reggio Emilia to complete his studies. The child was not breathing.
If he had called 911, probably even a few minutes of waiting could have been fatal.
When we saw the baby breathe again, we were all really happy.
They were moments of terror.
There was panic.
Luckily Alessandro was able to handle the situation with the necessary coolness.
For us, the graduation exam has already passed. "The parents and relatives of the child thanked the future nurse, to whom they will be eternally grateful.