Children's swimming lessons to prevent more drowning incidents

 

 

SA KAEO, 28th June 2018 (NNT)-The Thap Phrik Tambon Health Promoting Hospital in Sa Kaeo province is offering swimming lessons to children to prevent drowning deaths. 

More than 70 students from Sa Pratum School have participated in the swimming lessons held at a local dike where they learned how to save themselves from drowning and identify a safe place for swimming in a natural environment. 

The students also learnt from professionals how to stay afloat and use ropes and plastic bottles to help those in danger of drowning. As many as 254 children drowned during one school break alone last year. That number accounted for 36% of all children who drowned in 2017. 

The majority of them were children aged between 5 and 9 years old. Most of the older kids died from drowning in natural water sites, while the younger ones were said to have been left unsupervised by adults when the drowning tragically occurred.

 

-- nnt 2018-06-28

They should start this lessons all over the country.

3 hours ago, RotMahKid said:

They should start this lessons all over the country.

I agree. The is most important lesson to be learnt as a child. An A level in maths is useless if you are out of your depth in water and can't swim. 

Brilliant!!!

Great idea and I hope if gets support everywhere. Now getting them to wear helmets is the next thing.

More important than religion (all of them) lessons IMO


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3 hours ago, FitnessHealthTravel said:

Great idea and I hope if gets support everywhere. Now getting them to wear helmets is the next thing.

...and prevent them from driving motorcycles until they are 15.