Bobby’s 25 years working in the Emergency Room at Suburban Johns Hopkins Hospital came in handy when 2 young girls were rescued from the water in a tidal area adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean.

While Bobby and Precious were visiting a village called John Obey in Sierra Leone, they were walking along the beach when they saw the locals bringing out two drowning victims from the ocean gasping for air.

Both girls were brought out of the water at the same time lying on the beach with foam coming out of their mouth, ears and nose.  Bobby placed both girls on their sides while they were vomiting water and foam out of their mouths. He was going back and forth between the girls, while giving instructions to locals while working with each of them. 

After hours of persistent rescuing techniques I was able to stabilize one of the girls and switched back to work with the other girl. I was sweeping out the foams from their ears, mouth and nose, cleaning the sand off their mouth, nose and everywhere else on their faces and also trying to do a side and back blows from getting the water out of their lungs. Because they drank so much of the salt water the last girl took me a long time rescuing before I was able to handle her situation and stabilized her. 

She was having a severe uncontrollable abdominal pain, which I thought could be due to of too much of the salt water.  I asked the locals for a lump of charcoal to be diluted in water, hoping it would help from the effects of the salt water. Surprisingly, she Immediately open her eyes, slowed down her breathing and took few more sips of the diluted charcoal in water. She immediately started feeling much better and stronger, even though she still kept throwing some of it out.

Hours later, both girls walked out of the beach with the support of their families.

We left later and continued our prayers for the recovery and safety of the girls while they went home.

There’s NO hospital within an hour of this location and the girls most likely would have died if they had not been resuscitated.

I give all the praise to God and thank Him for keeping calm, and giving me the ability and strength to rescue and save both girls.