UAE BARQ برق الإمارات – نبضك
Saif Sultan Al Hassani, an Emirati child from Fujairah, died two days ago after drowning in a hotel swimming pool in Kuwait while on a one-week family trip.
“We were on a trip and we planned to spend a week in Kuwait,” said Sultan Abdullah Al Hassani, the father of the child. “I did not expect to return with the dead body of my one-and-a-half-year-old son.”
Details of the incident reveal that at 12:30 PM, the family were going out of the hotel when the father couldn’t find his son, “so I started looking for him around the reception area, then I was surprised that he had opened the door to the public swimming pool in the hotel and fell in it, and no one noticed or saved him” said the grieving father.
“I took him out and tried to revive him, but I could not. He swallowed a large amount of water from the pool, we wanted to call an ambulance but we didn’t know the local number, so one of the hotel staff guided us to the nearest hospital. We took our own car to a private clinic. The medical staff tried to save him but they couldn’t, so they called an ambulance to take him to a hospital, the ride from the hotel to the clinic took 20 minutes”.
The child’s father demanded that the management of the hotel in which his son died should be held accountable for the lack of surveillance cameras on the swimming pool, stressing the necessity of allocating safe swimming pools for children and not leaving the doors open. “How can a one-and-a-half-year-old get to the swimming pool and open its door so easily”, pointing out that the location of the swimming pool is not safe, since it’s directly near the elevator, making it easier for children access it, there were also no trained rescuers there.
