Early warning of drowning accidents before summer comes

Every year, around May, when students finish their second semester exams and prepare for summer vacation, drowning incidents often occur because children are off school and playing in rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, etc. This year, at the beginning of the dry season of 2025, a number of drowning incidents involving children have occurred in the province. The above situation shows that child drowning incidents can occur at any time if there is a lack of close attention from adults; lack of propaganda and warnings from functional sectors and local authorities.

Báo Đồng Nai•02/04/2025

Therefore, from now on, the propaganda work to prevent and combat drowning for children, especially school-age children, needs to be focused on and widely implemented in schools and residential areas. In particular, it focuses on warning about drowning in rivers, streams, ponds, and lakes so that students stay away from and do not go to places with high risk of drowning; how to escape and handle when encountering a drowning person. If you discover someone drowning, you need to stay calm and shout for help, asking for help from many people; at the same time, find long tree branches for the victim to hang on to pull them to shore...

To prevent drowning, local authorities where there are ponds, lakes, rivers, streams or construction works under construction; soil and rock mines, etc., in addition to propaganda work, must immediately deploy effective measures such as: placing warning signs of drowning risks in areas where ponds, lakes, rivers and streams are often visited and played; assigning guards or fencing off areas where construction works, soil and rock mines are in operation.

The most important thing in preventing drowning is the care and management of children by parents. In addition to equipping children with swimming skills, parents also need to closely follow their children's schedules, need to know where their children go, what they do and always warn their children about the risk of drowning when playing in ponds, lakes, rivers, streams without adults. Water tanks in the house and in the garden also need to be covered, ensuring that children cannot open them to avoid the case of children falling into the tank, leading to drowning. When taking children to the beach or swimming pool, it is necessary to equip them with life jackets, always keep an eye on them to prevent unfortunate accidents and injuries to their children, including drowning accidents.

In the long term, more specific and fundamental solutions are still needed from the authorities, including implementing swimming lessons in schools to help more and more students learn to swim; master drowning prevention skills to protect themselves.

Thu Ngoc

Source: https://baodongnai.com.vn/xa-hoi/202504/canh-bao-som-tai-nan-duoi-nuoc-truoc-khi-he-ve-c0b7527/