The importance of first aid knowledge is highlighted by the case of a priest from Limnos who saved the life of a 2-year-old boy who suffered a stroke in a village on the island. Father Nektarios Boulitsakis, who performed CARPA on the child, says that “we live in a time when people are lost in squares full of people.”

Father Nektarios Boulitsakis is a priest in the parish of Kontia and a trained volunteer of the Red Cross Lemnos – Agios Efstratios Regional Department. “It is great what the Red Cross is doing, because unfortunately we live in a time when people are lost in squares full of people,” the priest told limnofm100.gr.

“When the president of the Local Branch asked me ‘what were you doing at that moment’, I answered honestly: ‘I was doing two things together, prayer and CPR’,” he added. The priest expressed his desire not to speak further about the incident: “I don’t want to talk, our time is looking for heroes”.

The door opened and the mother met with the priest

According to limnosfm100.gr, the incident happened about a month ago in a nearby village of Kontia, when the priest was in the area for shopping.

While he was walking along the road ready to depart, the door of a house opened abruptly and a woman jumped out, shouting that the child was not breathing, according to the same reports. The priest, entered the house and upon seeing the unconscious child, administered CPR. The 2-year-old came back to collapse again and the priest performed CPR again, resulting in the child regaining consciousness. The 2-year-old was taken to the hospital and is in good health.