Life-saving tips: How to rescue a near-drowning person before medical help arrives

Last month, an 18-month-old boy fell unconscious after a near-drowning accident in a Dubai residential building’s swimming pool.
In view of World Drowning Prevention Day observed on July 25, Gulf News spoke to his father about how the child was rescued, a doctor, who treated him later at a hospital, and an emergency medicine specialist to explain the measures to be taken to prevent drowning incidents and to rescue a near-drowning victim until medical help arrives. Near-drowning happens when a person is unable to breathe due to extended submersion in water.
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Do we blow air inside the mouth or suck air from inside

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Do we blow in air or suck out air from the person

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Giving a rescue breath mouth to mouth doesn't cause any infection to a rescuer like nasopharyngeal spreading infection like TB OR some other infection i have a dout on this please anyone let me know