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CTV News
3 days ago
- General
- CTV News
Family in tears after Good Samaritans who saved father's life visit hospital
The Borrelli family is eternally thankful after three Good Samaritans saved 87-year-old Sabato after he collapsed in Jarry Park. Gloria Borrelli and other members of her family broke down in tears when the Good Samaritans who saved her father's life showed up at the hospital. 'They just wanted to see my dad,' she said. 'It was so nice. They brought us flowers.' Gloria's father, Sabato Borrelli, collapsed in Jarry Park on May 15, when a trio of Good Samaritans came to his rescue. Three people found the 87-year-old around 20 minutes after he collapsed and performed CPR on the man until emergency services arrived. Mikhael Esterez and a woman who preferred to remain anonymous were helped by another stranger to keep Sabato alive. Gloria told CTV News that she met Esterez and the woman, but still does not know the identity of the third person. Esterez's father, she said, was a doctor and taught the entire family CPR and the woman went to med school and knew what to do. 'It was the right people that know what they're doing,' said Gloria, who said that the two typically head to daycare at 5 p.m. nearby but decided to go at 3 p.m. Gloria Borrelli and Vanessa Caporicci Gloria Borrelli and Vanessa Caporicci will be learning CPR in the coming months after Gloria's 87-year-old father was saved by Good Samaritans after he collapsed. (Christine Long/CTV News) After the event, the family was desperate to find the people who saved Sabato, as, if not for their performing CPR on him for 20 minutes, he would have died. 'I still get chills when I say that because if that had not been done, he was a goner,' said Gloria. Sabato regained consciousness on May 17, also his 87th birthday. He remains in the hospital recovering. Sabato Borrelli Sabato Borrelli was an active 86-year-old man before he collapsed in Jarry Park days before his birthday and was saved by Good Samaritans who stopped to give him CPR. (Gloria Borrelli) Gloria said that she will arrange CPR training for the entire family in the coming months, as the family has become fully aware of its importance. 'You can literally save a life if you have the bare minimum of training in terms of how to provide basic cardiac life support,' said Dr. Christopher Labos. 'I think it's something we should be teaching everyone. I think we should be teaching it to kids in school. I think we should be training people how to use defibrillators, cause that makes a difference as well.'
CBC
4 days ago
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- CBC
Montreal family meets Good Samaritans who delivered life-saving CPR to 87-year-old man
When 87-year-old Sabato Borrelli went into cardiac arrest May 15, a group of strangers stepped in to help. After reading about Borrelli's recovery, one of them reached out to CBC. Gloria Borrelli and her mother Francesca choked back tears as they took turns hugging and kissing Mikhael Esterez on the cheek, repeating the words "thank you" over and over again outside Montreal's Sacré-Coeur hospital. After more than a week of searching for the Good Samaritans who delivered life-saving CPR to Gloria's dad, 87-year-old Sabato Borrelli, the mother and daughter finally met Esterez and another woman who played a key role that day, but who wanted to keep her identity private. Borrelli had collapsed after going into cardiac arrest while out on his daily walk on May 15 near Jarry Park. "You guys are superheroes for us," Gloria told them. On Monday, the two strangers met Borrelli inside his hospital room where he continues to recover from the ordeal. He managed to wave and say thank you "many times," he said. Esterez reached out to CBC after reading about Borrelli 's recovery and the family's search for the Good Samaritan who saved him. But he insisted CBC also find the woman at the scene who was the first to call 911 and begin compressions that day. "I'm super happy that they have more time with somebody that's important to them," he said. "We all have people we care for and sometimes we kind of wish we could have more time with them." Mikhael Esterez, left, met Sabato Borrelli's granddaughter, Vanessa Caporicci, right, among some of his other family members Monday. (Paula Dayan-Perez/CBC) Borrelli turned 87 the day he awoke at the hospital on May 17. Coincidentally, that same day, Esterez turned 35, wondering what had become of the man he helped a couple days prior. He had pulled into the parking lot of his daughter's daycare around 3 p.m. when he saw Borrelli lying on the ground, a woman on the phone near him. The 911 operator asked if there were any defibrillators nearby. Esterez went into the daycare hoping to find one but there was none. By that point, the woman had already started giving Borrelli chest compressions to the pace set by the 911 operator over the phone. Feeling some strain in her wrists, she let Esterez take over after a few minutes. "He has these very intense blue eyes and I remember looking down on him while doing the compressions and he was staring at me so I really hoped I would see him like I did today, alive with life in his eyes because I feared they would kind of haunt me for a little while," he said. Francesca Borrelli said the young age of the two people that helped save her husband's life touched her and she felt grateful for them. (Paula Dayan-Perez/CBC) Esterez kept going until a first paramedic arrived in an SUV equipped with a defibrillator at 3:15 p.m., according to Urgences-santé's log. The paramedic shocked Borrelli and asked a second unidentified man to take over chest compressions for a bit, said Esterez. Five minutes later, at 3:20 p.m., the ambulance arrived and Borrelli was rushed to hospital. "You're just left there and you don't know if you did good or if the person is still alive," said Esterez. Urgences-santé spokesperson Jean-Pierre Rouleau says they were receiving a high volume of calls that day, which is why the ambulance took as long as it did. The original dispatch was received at 3:02 p.m. Over the last 30 days, Urgences-santé's ambulances have arrived at the scene of a high-priority call within 8 minutes and 50 seconds, says Rouleau. "There's days, unfortunately, when the demand exceeds supply and, well, it's more difficult to respond as quickly as we would like," he said. "We would always like to have more resources but it's linked to budgets." Esterez noted that 18 minutes was a long time, thinking that traffic had something to do with the delay. For him, the lessons of that day are pretty clear: "People should learn CPR and get out of the way [for] the ambulance," he said.
