Warsaw. A bloody senior citizen was lying on the bike path. City guards provided help

In Warsaw's Sadyba district, city guards helped a senior citizen who was lying on a bicycle path covered in blood. It turned out that the 70-year-old fell while walking. He was taken to hospital.

City guards patrolling the Sadyba area on Friday evening noticed a person lying on the bicycle path at Powsińska. It turned out that he was a badly bruised 70-year-old man who had fallen while walking.

“When the man hit his face on the asphalt, he suffered a deep cut on his eyebrow, a bruised nose and several smaller abrasions on his face,” city guards wrote in a statement. The senior couldn't get up on his own.

They stopped the bleeding and wrapped him in a blanket

The officers provided first aid to the injured person. They had a rescue backpack, and one of the officers had completed a qualified first aid rescuer course. An ambulance was also called to the scene. The guard conducted a rescue interview and at the same time stopped the bleeding from the eyebrow and nose. The injured person was wrapped in a thermal blanket to prevent hypothermia. In this way he waited for the ambulance to arrive.

The guards were constantly monitoring his condition. “They also managed to obtain the address of the man's son. They went to inform him about his father's unpleasant adventure when the ambulance took the senior to the hospital,” the guards added.

The city guard is prepared

Nearly one hundred Warsaw city guards have paramedic qualifications or have completed a qualified first aid paramedic course. The officers are also equipped with specialized rescue backpacks, and each Local Police Department has an AED defibrillator.