Israeli Paramedics Save Choking Child in Moroccan Restaurant

A child came close to losing his life in a restaurant in Agadir on Tuesday, December 27. While they were dining, the Asoulin brothers, Moshe, Nati and Itzik, all three Israeli volunteer paramedics from the United Hatzalah NGO based in Jerusalem, heard cries for help coming from a neighboring table. A crowd was already forming. A 3-year-old child had just choked on a foreign object.

The three brothers quickly went to the table to save the child. They used the Heimlich maneuver, a manual abdominal compression technique used to dislodge an object stuck in the throat and preventing the person from breathing. "After a series of abdominal thrusts and a few measured blows to the back, the little boy coughed up the foreign object he had choked on and resumed breathing," reports Jewish Press.

"We were in the right place at the right time and we did what anyone with the appropriate training would have done," said Moshe Asoulin. He and his brothers were thanked by the boy’s family.