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A FOUR-YEAR-old girl has received a special certificate by South Western Ambulance Service in England, after she raised the alarm and called an ambulance when her mother became ill.
Earlier this month, Kaitlyn Wright dialled 999 when her mother Charlene began to have a seizure.
In a section of the call released by the ambulance service, Kaitlyn can be heard telling the operator that her mother had a fit and she “needed to look after her”.
She was able to direct the ambulance to their home by telling them to go “down the big hill and up the other side”.
Emergency services were able to reach their home in Dorset, and give treatment to Charlene and she has since made a recovery.
Kaitlyn was presented with the special certificate today for her quick-thinking in getting help for her mother.
Charlene told the Dorset Echo: “I just can’t explain how very proud I am of Kaitlyn. It was quite scary for Kaitlyn to see me have a fit but she was so calm and chilled about it.”
The mother and daughter visit the control centre for the ambulance service yesterday, where they were reunited with the 999 call handler Jess Hodkinson.
She said: “When I took the call I was quite surprised because she had such a little voice so I knew she was a young child.
I had to adapt what I was saying to her so she understood what I was asking her. For example, I had to ask if the casualty was pregnant so I asked Kaitlyn if her mummy had a baby in her tummy. But she was very brave and confident he knew what to say and what to do.
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Love Tesco – they quietly raise prices on items by a cent or two – leave it for a few weeks, then announce a ‘price drop’! lol classic
One of the last times i was in Tesco you could buy a 2 litre bottle of cola for €1 or a 2 litre twin pack for €2.50…go figure
If Tesco were to hand out a weeks free groceries I would not toutch them . Terrible bad in handleing
Apologies cannot finish this text
Did you need to catch that plane Alan?
Yes OK but Tesco are threatening to cut wages for long term staff . Am I correct ?
Are they back selling horse meat?
@akan scott – Yes they’re cutting the pay for long service staff (following agreement, of course) – An ever popular practice for many Irish Companies – Its called AGEISM.
What about all the cash they built up from yours of dodging paying taxes etc…….oh wait the lads at the top want us all pitying them and tesco, even though they are currently trying to screw over their Irish work force. Ya sorry lads no sympathy here
Every LIDL helps
As they’ve registered loss for a number of years they can weigh that loss against profits for a few years to avoid paying tax, increased profits will then allow them to invest for growth and increased employment will lead to more tax into government coffers.
Or something.
It’s deceptive… None of that loss is from trading and operations. They declared £7 billion in ‘one off losses’ last year. Took a write down on the value of their property portfolio by almost £4 billion and wrote off other losses from closing their USA ‘fresh and easy’ connivence stores as well as online and certain Asian markets.
Investors beware… It actually looks like their profits fell further £600m to £450m if you exclude such exceptional items on the balance sheet.
Hmm…it’s as kosher as Paddy’s pigs.
All their beef is Halal, the Hijrah must be good for business.
That too
Aldi profit in the world wouldn’t make me shop in Tesco.
You need to loosen up a Lidl.
Found a new recipe for cooking the books have they?
Oh, this is sure going to help their position when they sit down with the strikers…
I don’t like Tesco anymore, they’re too inconsistent. You can walk into any Dunnes, or even SuperValu when you want a specific item, but you can’t do the same in Tesco, because all of the stores seem to be different.
I tried to get around this by asking my local Tesco to stock a particular item. After three attempts over several weeks, they finally got the item in stock. When they sold them all, they didn’t bother re-stocking, and they haven’t bothered their arse since. If I drive to another Tesco 20 odd miles away, I find shelves full of what the other store isn’t stocking. Tesco can take a hike and stop pretending that they’re listening to their customers.
Local Tesco is manky. Gone off fruit. Gone off cheese. Rotten dirty shop.
Surprised they turned a profit here as with all the honouring of competitors vouchers from newspapers has to have hurt the bottom line, I must have saved €200 with Aldi and lidl vouchers!
Hate tesco, no price ever the same from month to month. Keep changing them so as we don’t know how much things really are. Rip off
Ah now i see why they want to screw their employees but seeking wage decreases and terms and conditions. They make millions but want more. So buck the workers
Back in profit but trying to cut pay. Typical corporate entity
I used to enjoy shopping at tesco in Dublin but since they put in them awful self payment checkout leading to job loses I don’t shop there and won’t until they remove them.thats why I don’t go into d banks anymore either
Liam they are extra checkouts , nobody lost their jobs over them being installed .
Back in profits and still trying to cut wages. Typical corporate entity
That’s a shame the way they treat there staff
Lowering wages of their staff with these massive profits. Tesco can get fu*ked
F**K Tesco
They still squeezing small businesses out except our family business we will fight them & we are ahead on our quality Irish grown plants not Deutch that Tesco claim are Irish .
As a retailer it makes me happy & sad to see them letting plants drying out then dumping them . Tesco are not a good operator in Irl in comparison to uk . Supervalu are undergoing revamps off most stores & putting the Superquinn touch back to them finally .
Tesco have lowered SOME of their prices since 2012. Big deal.
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