Nir Lion (30) Hapoel Holon's Basketball team's masseur, completed a Red Magen David course last year - and yesterday proved himself. Received Certificate of Gratitude from RMD
Nir Lion (30) a blind Israeli from Holon, completed a Red Magen David (RMD) course last year. Yesterday, when his neighbour suffered a heart attack, Nir applied resuscitation and massaged the heart until the cardiac ambulance and staff arrived, thus saving the man's life.
Nir, married and father of a baby, the masseur of Hapoel Holon Basketball team, said "I had just entered the lift in order to reach my apartment on the 2nd floor. Suddenly the neighbour from the 1st floor told me, in a very frightend voice, that her neighbor, a vet aged 60 was blue and breathing with great difficulty. I asked her to take me to him. He was lying on the floor. I turned him over onto his back, checked his pulse and found it to be extremely weak. He wasn't breathing. I massaged his heart and gave him mouth-to-mouth until cardiac arrived."
Both Shuki Gutman, spokesman of RMD and Rafi Malca the paramedic who treated the patient, presented Nir yesterday with a first-aid kit and certificate for Nir's initative. Rafi said: "It took some time to believe Nir is really blind. He acted precisely according to all the rules. Because of Nir's fast action, not only was the patient's life saved, but he also did not suffer any brain damage".