30/7/2010
Sharing the Book Report
Ex-20 A Dangerous Place for Young Children
(Kar) What are the causes of child accidents at home?
Many parents are less aware of preventing accidents to cause plenty of child accidents at home. According to Hospital Authority Statistics that there were nearly nine children who were sent to the Accident & Emergency Department or hospital every day between 2006 and 2008. Those child accidents include: drinking detergents or medicine, burns, fall from high buildings and slipping in the bathroom etc. Therefore, parents should be aware of potential hazards at home to prevented accidents with manageable steps, most accidental injuries can be reduced.
Recently, I read about some young children were sent to the hospital since their parents or grandparents who had careless to look after them.
A two-year old boy swallowed baleful of kerosene while playing with his older brother in their grandmother’s room. The three-year old found a plastic bottle under the bed that contained kerosene. Both toddlers mistook the fuel for pop, and the younger brother took a cap full. Their mother had found the toddler vomiting and sent them to the hospital.
Another case a three-year old boy fell to his death from the 18th-floor flat. The boy managed to open the security gate of the flat when the grandmother was cooking. She found that he was missing. She was looking for him and saw him lying unconscious on the fourth-floor podium of the 25-story building. She immediately called police and the boy was rushed to the hospital where he died. This is a fact; it is especially hard for the elderly to take care of active children.
Another there-old girl was left sleeping alone at midnight since her grandmother had gone to see a doctor about a stomachache. She found nobody when she woke up. She climbed out of the flat and was sitting on the extendable canvas canopy above the street. A restaurant owner across the street saw the girl sitting on the canopy at 1:30 am and called police. Fortunately, she was saved, without injury, and was sent to the hospital.
If parents or grandparents had realized to prevent accidents at home, most of child accidents would not have happened.
Sharing the Book Report
Ex-20 A Dangerous Place for Young Children
(Kar) What are the causes of child accidents at home?
Many parents are less aware of preventing accidents to cause plenty of child accidents at home. According to Hospital Authority Statistics that there were nearly nine children who were sent to the Accident & Emergency Department or hospital every day between 2006 and 2008. Those child accidents include: drinking detergents or medicine, burns, fall from high buildings and slipping in the bathroom etc. Therefore, parents should be aware of potential hazards at home to prevented accidents with manageable steps, most accidental injuries can be reduced.
Recently, I read about some young children were sent to the hospital since their parents or grandparents who had careless to look after them.
A two-year old boy swallowed baleful of kerosene while playing with his older brother in their grandmother’s room. The three-year old found a plastic bottle under the bed that contained kerosene. Both toddlers mistook the fuel for pop, and the younger brother took a cap full. Their mother had found the toddler vomiting and sent them to the hospital.
Another case a three-year old boy fell to his death from the 18th-floor flat. The boy managed to open the security gate of the flat when the grandmother was cooking. She found that he was missing. She was looking for him and saw him lying unconscious on the fourth-floor podium of the 25-story building. She immediately called police and the boy was rushed to the hospital where he died. This is a fact; it is especially hard for the elderly to take care of active children.
Another there-old girl was left sleeping alone at midnight since her grandmother had gone to see a doctor about a stomachache. She found nobody when she woke up. She climbed out of the flat and was sitting on the extendable canvas canopy above the street. A restaurant owner across the street saw the girl sitting on the canopy at 1:30 am and called police. Fortunately, she was saved, without injury, and was sent to the hospital.
If parents or grandparents had realized to prevent accidents at home, most of child accidents would not have happened.
