OKDHS Employee Honored for Quick Action in Saving Child’s Life

OKLAHOMA CAPITOL -- An employee of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services has been honored by the Oklahoma Commission for Human Services for actions in saving the life of a child.
Andrea Selman, 28, was presented an OKDHS Certificate of Commendation at the December meeting of the Commission in Oklahoma City.

Selman is a certified nursing assistant and works in the dietary department at the Southern Oklahoma Resource Center, Paul's Valley.

One August afternoon, Selman was sitting at a local swimming pool when a two-year-old girl who had been sitting on a pool step suddenly wasn’t there. The girl’s mother saw the child in the pool, jumped in and brought the child to the side of the pool. The little girl was not breathing.

Selman took the girl from the mother and began CPR. The Pauls Valley EMS arrived quickly, and the girl was taken to Pauls Valley General Hospital. She was later transferred to Oklahoma Children’s Hospital for observation and was released the next day.

The girl’s father said Andrea Selman "is and always will be our hero."

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