A toddler rescued his 82-year-old gran by jumping up onto her bed and retrieving her phone so she could call 999.
Little Jovan Cheema sprang into action - even doing a Superman impression - as he went to the aid of his gran Naranjan when she broke her leg in a fall at their home in Sunnyhill.
However, despite Naranjan being able to then call emergency crews she was in so much pain that she was unable to speak, reports Derbyshire Live .
Incredibly though, thanks to tracking technology and the fact they could hear Jovan in the background, they were able to locate the pair.
His father Bal said that, at first, his son “thought she was playing” when she asked for the phone but when he realised she was in agony he became upset.
He said: “Mum was struggling to breath.
'She said to Jovan in Punjabi to ‘get my phone, get my phone’ so he clambered on to an armchair next to her bed and then on to her bed where her phone was. "
“She was in too much pain to speak to an operator but they could hear Jovan crying in the background and, because of the technology, they have, they were able to pinpoint the location to our home and get an ambulance and police car there really quickly.
“He’s saved her life, it’s as simple as that. He is an amazing boy anyway and now he has done this.
"We just can’t believe it.”
Bal, 51, of Masefield Road, said the drama unfolded at around 3pm on Friday afternoon.
He said he was out at work while his wife Ladi was out running an errand, leaving Jovan with his grandmother “who he dotes on”.
Bal, who has his own courier business, said: “The van I was in had broken down in Ashbourne and I called my wife.
“She said to me ‘I have got some bad news’ and told me what happened.
“She said when she got home a police officer was there who told her what happened and said to her ‘you’ve got a remarkable little child there’.”
Bal said he and his family are very close and that his mother and his son have a special and close relationship.
He said: “There are 80 years between them but they are just like each other, always on the go and never sitting still for five minutes which is one of the reasons I think they get on so well together.
“What happened to us is the kind of thing you hear happening to other people so we’re still trying to get out heads around it.
“He is our little hero and we are so grateful and proud that he was able to do what he did to save mum’s life.”
Bal said his mother is currently in hospital in Derby, supported by famly.
He said she is scheduled to have an operation on Wednesday to repair a break to her femur, the thigh bone, which she suffered in the fall.
