DOCTORS who saved a schoolboy's life after they had “no hope” for him want to stress the importance of resuscitation.

Staff at Bincote Road Surgery in Bincote Road, Enfield, treated the boy after he was rushed into their surgery on Tuesday, November 22, at 3.15pm.

The boy, who has not yet been named, is a pupil at Merryhills Primary School, which is around the corner from the surgery.

After he reportedly fell and hit his head as he walked home from school an adult he was with , quickly carried to the surgery.

One of the GPs, Dr Marc Dissanayake, said: “We brought him into one of our treatment rooms and my team and I started resuscitating him but he did not respond.

“We shocked him three times but still there was no response.

“We had no hope for him initially and I was not feeling very positive because he was not responding.

“But then he started to breathe.”

Although an ambulance was dispatched it could not reach the surgery due to heavy traffic in the area so the London Air Ambulance was called.

The helicopter arrived and the advanced trauma team treated the boy before he was transferred to Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.

Dr Dissanayake said he was relieved when a consultant at the hospital rang him later to tell him the boy, who had bruising to his head, was doing well and praised his team for their efforts.

He said: “A doctor from the Royal London Hospital called me that evening to say we had done a good job with resuscitating him and that it had helped to prevent brain damage.

“They said what we did was really effective and the child was now talking and responding normally.

“We did what we had to do and I want to stress the importance of resuscitation and educating people about it.

“It was such an emotional event for all of us here but to do this job is so important.”

The doctor, who has worked at the surgery for 25 years, treated the child with another GP, a medical student and the practice manager.