A nine-year-old boy swallowed corn grains and suffocated. The tragedy happened in Buiucani district of Chisinau on Saturday. Anatol Proca, coordinating doctor on duty at the Chisinau Emergency Medical Assistance Station, has told Info-Prim Neo that two teams of doctors, including a reanimation squad, arrived at the scene four minutes after receiving the call, but it was too late. A person chokes when the food gets into the trachea. According to Anatol Proca, in such cases one should embrace the victim from behind and press sharply the upper part of the abdomen with one palm over the other. The babies and small children must be turned upside down and hit with the palm between the scapulas. The boy who died had seven brothers and sisters.