A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl, who was comatose after a drowning incident in a hotel pool on Monday, was taken off life support yesterday.
The incident happened at about 10.30am on Monday at the Grand Mercure Singapore Roxy hotel in Katong, Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao reported yesterday.
The girl, Neisha, is from the Indonesian island of Bali. Wanbao understands that her mother works at a Singapore Airlines office there and was here for training, staying with her family of four at the hotel.
On the day of the incident, the mother is believed to have been out for class.
Her husband took the girl and her eight-year-old brother to the hotel pool.
They had been in the shallow pool playing when the girl disappeared.
When the father realised that she was missing, he scrambled to look for her and eventually found her at the bottom of the pool.
He dove in and pulled her out but she was already unconscious.
At the time of the incident, it is believed that there were no other hotel guests at the pool.
Neisha’s father did not know how to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
An ambulance arrived and took her to the hospital, where she was certified brain-dead because of prolonged oxygen deprivation.
Neisha’s relatives were distraught when they heard of the news and her grandparents flew over at the first opportunity.
Despite efforts spent monitoring and trying to resuscitate Neisha, she did not get better and her chances were bleak as she was already brain-dead, so the family made the painful decision of taking her off life support.
Wanbao visited the hospital Neisha was at yesterday morning.
More than 20 people – including friends, family and counsellors – were gathered outside the intensive care unit.
Her parents said their last goodbyes at about noon and she was taken off life support half an hour later.
A spokesman for the hotel said it is assisting the police in investigations.
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