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Boys treated after taking pills

18/02/2010

PARAMEDICS treated two young brothers who swallowed a relative’s blood pressure tablets at a Narre Warren house this week.
They were called to the house just before 9.30am on Monday with the first crew arriving within five minutes of the call.
Paramedics said the the boys, aged two and five, were quite drowsy when they arrived. Both boys were taken to Dandenong Hospital in a stable condition and later transferred by ambulance to Monash Medical Centre.

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