THE mother of a three-year-old boy is expressing her gratitude to Coast Guard doctors and medics for saving her son’s life after he was found in a semi-conscious state in a jacuzzi on Monos Island on Tuesday.

Laura Ferreira, the mother of Kaiden Lee Thomas, said she was ’eternally grateful’ to the officers.

’They were a huge help to us. They were professional and we just want to thank them so much. We want to express many thanks to the Coast Guard, and the doctors at the hospital. They were all just really, really good. Two gentlemen (from the Coast Guard) even kept calling me to make sure that everything was okay with him,’ she said. Ferreira said she also wanted to thank family friend Nicole Pierre, who conducted initial Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) on the child until he was handed over to the Coast Guard.

According to a press release issued yesterday by the Coast Guard, at approximately 2.57 p.m., a vessel came alongside Staubles Bay from Monos Island reporting an emergency. Thomas, who was still in a semiconscious state, was brought by his parents who were urgently requesting medical assistance. Coast Guard doctor, Lieutenant Commander Dowlat, and two medics rushed to the jetty and continued CPR. The release said that Dowlat managed to ensure that Thomas had a patent airway, good vitals and was breathing on his own before whisking him and his parents away for further medical attention in a Coast Guard ambulance. Ferreira said the officers later took the child to West Shore Medical Centre and later to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC) for further observation. He was discharged at around 2.30 a.m., yesterday, and was said to be ’100 per cent better.’