The central coastal province of Thanh Hoa is intensifying activities under the local project on sustainable interference to prevent child drowning after several incidents happened in the locality in the past five months.
Thanh Hoa (VNA) – The central coastal provinceof Thanh Hoa is intensifying activities under the local project on sustainableinterference to prevent child drowning after several incidents happened in thelocality in the past five months.
According to the provincial Department of Labour,Invalids and Social Affairs, 16 accidents involving children happened in theprovince since the beginning of this year, 11 of which were drowning accidents.
Head of the department’s section for childrenaffairs Nguyen Ngoc Thu said there are three major causes of the accidents, oneof which is negligence on the part of families, who did not pay sufficientattention to educating and supervising children outside of school. Another reasonis the unsafe living environment, and the third one is children’s lack of skillsto cope with dangerous situations.
The department said it will conduct more educationalcampaigns in 20 communes on the risks of and measures to prevent child drowningaccidents. Swimming classes will be held for children, with the goal of 2,200 childrentaught to swim this summer.
The province’s educational sector is coordinatingwith the Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism to install smart mobile swimmingpools at local schools serving the training of swimming for children.
According to research by theUnited Nations Children’s Fund in Vietnam (UNICEF Vietnam), about 7,000children drown each year in Vietnam.-VNA
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