Shocking moments unfolded on Friday afternoon in its center Plataniawhen a 60-year-old tourist who was visiting the area suffered a heart attack.

The mobilization was immediate and finally the man was saved by rescuers from a private polyclinic in Platanias and the crew of the EKAB ambulance that rushed to the incident.

“We notified Mr. Charalamos Vittorakis, who sent two people from his clinic, fully equipped with a defibrillator and everything related and together with the ambulance staff brought the man back to life after 17 minutes of being unconscious” he notes in zarpanews.gr shop owner of the area who was in front of the events.

“When the man started to show signs of life we ​​started to applaud, all the people who had gathered, for the ambulance crew and the medical assistants who were literally dead and didn’t let him go” he says while adding that “we want to give credit to Mr. Vittorakis and his team.”

It is noted that the 60-year-old underwent surgery and a balloon was placed on him.

According to the official information about the incident, at 18:58 a call was made for a patient with cardiorespiratory arrest at a hotel in Platanias, Chania, at 19:10 the ambulance arrived at the site. CPR had already started. A Defibrillator was placed, intubated with a laryngeal mask, an IV line was placed, and Advanced Life Support (ALS) was initiated by the EMS crew. In collaboration with the staff of Mr. Vittorakis, the patient was assigned to sinus rhythm and transferred to the Chania General Hospital at 19:40. The patient was transferred to the Coronary Unit.