Politician says "Thank you"

Wasp sting: Samaritans save National Councillor

Thanks to the Samaritans: Lena Laufenthaler, Christian Bernhard, National Councillor Alois Schroll, Katharina Krenn and Chairman Manuel Krenn.(Bild: Crepaz Franz)

A wasp sting could have ended badly for Alois Schroll from Ybbs. But the rescue chain worked perfectly! Now the politician thanked his helpers. 

A nice time with friends ended with an emergency call-out. The National Councillor was with friends on August 4 when a wasp suddenly flew into his mouth and stung Schroll in the uvula. "It was around 6 p.m. at the time," he recalls. It was only thanks to the rapid assistance of the emergency doctor and the Persenbeug Samaritans, who gave him first aid and took him to the ENT department at St. Pölten Hospital, that the 56-year-old SPÖ leader was able to avoid anything worse happening.

A wasp flew into Schroll's mouth and stung him in the roof of his mouth!(Bild: Heiko Bellmann)

The attending primary physician even had to cut open the suppository to remove part of the stinger. "I was given infusions and syringes and was extremely lucky that the Samaritans and the emergency doctor acted so carefully and quickly," says Schroll gratefully. Only recently, two people died from wasp stings.

Cake brought over
The MP then thanked chairman Manuel Krenn, the Samaritans Lena Laufenthaler and Christian Bernhard who were on the trip and the entire team of rescuers from Persenbeug with a cake