Two young boys have been hailed as heroes for saving their mum’s life after she collapsed unconscious at home.
The youngsters aged just nine and six summoned the emergency services after Emma Royanne, 31,who suffers from diabetes, collapsed and started having fits on Tuesday evening last week.
Nine-year-old Matthew Lagden calmly dialled 999 to call the ambulance, opened the front door so the paramedics could get in, and then stayed on the line taking instructions from the ambulance control centre on how to check his mum’s breathing.
The drama started when Matthew was playing upstairs with his younger brother Joseph, six at their home in River Way, Ewell, when they suddenly heard a noise.
Joseph went downstairs and found their mum lying on the floor having fits.
He alerted Matthew who called the ambulance, checked his mum’s breathing and reported back to the ambulance control centre on her condition until the ambulance crews arrived before summoning his grandmother.
Emma, had instructed the boys on how to dial 999 in a crisis especially if she she went into a diabetic coma, and Matthew followed her instructions to the letter.
Emma is now in Epsom General Hospital undergoing a battery of tests to find out why she had a seizure which in not thought to be related to her diabetes.
The boys’ grandmother, Belinda Bastable, who lives nearby in Brook Close, Ewell, said: “We are very proud of them.
The paramedics said they had saved their mum’s life by acting so quickly.
“Their mum had told them what to do, how to call an ambulance if she should become very ill and Matthew did exactly what she told him.
“They really did save her life - they did very well."
A spokesman for the South East Coast Ambulance Service said: "Matthew and his younger brother Joseph were very brave.
"They answered all the call-taker’s instructions and did everything they were told to do.
"They and their family should be very proud.
"This case highlights how important it is that parents explain to their children what to do in an emergency as you never know when you may need to call 999.”
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