Four-year-old in critical condition after pool accident in Gran Canaria
A four-year-old girl was airlifted to hospital in critical condition on Monday after being pulled from a swimming pool in Taurito, in the municipality of Mogán, Gran Canaria.
The incident occurred at around 1:15 p.m. on 1 December 2025, when the Canary Islands’ Emergency and Security Coordination Centre (CECOES) 112 received an alert reporting that a child had been rescued from a pool in cardiorespiratory arrest.
According to the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC), the child showed signs of incomplete drowning and suffered a severe head injury at the time of first assistance. Lifeguards at the pool performed resuscitation before emergency crews arrived.
A SUC medical helicopter transported the girl to the helipad at Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Doctor Negrín, from where she was transferred by medical ambulance to the Hospital Universitario Materno Infantil de Canarias.
CECOES 112 activated a wide emergency response that included a SUC medical helicopter, two medical ambulances, a basic life support ambulance, firefighters from the Gran Canaria Emergency Consortium, the Civil Guard, local police, and Civil Protection units. Firefighters and Civil Protection personnel secured the landing zone for the helicopter, while the Civil Guard and local police assisted with the operation and began gathering information.
Authorities have not released further details about the child’s condition.
