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What is the root solution?

Child drowning prevention: The root solution

Talking to PV Dan Viet, Mr. Hoang Nam – Vice Chairman of Quang Tri Provincial People’s Committee said that although all levels, branches and schools in the province always focus on performing well in communication and advanced education. awareness for the community about injury prevention in general and drowning in particular, but the situation of drowning accidents still occurs.

According to statistics, from 2016 to 2020, in Quang Tri, 63 children drowned. Only in the first 6 months of 2021, 12 children died from drowning and this number tends to increase in the following time.

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Mr. Hoang Nam – Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Quang Tri province said that building swimming pools and teaching swimming in schools is a fundamental solution to limit the situation of children and students drowning. Photo: NV

Drowning is not only the pain and loss of families with dead children, but also makes the whole society angry and worried. There are many causes of drowning accidents in children, but the main reason is not knowing how to swim.

In order to prevent and prevent drowning in a long-term and fundamental way, it is necessary to have a separate policy and project on building swimming pools, organizing a swimming training program and skills to prevent and avoid drowning injuries in schools. learn. It is a fundamental, long-term and absolutely necessary solution.

Swimming is not only the best sport in sports to help train and exercise a comprehensive body, but also a method to protect children from drowning.

In the condition that resources from the state budget are limited, it is necessary to have specific and detailed guidelines and projects on socialization in order to mobilize social resources to build swimming pools, which is the optimal solution. First of all, the education and training sector needs to prepare to develop a swimming pool socialization project and a swimming teaching program for students in schools in order to gradually make swimming a popular subject in the indoor physical education program. school.

Hoang Nam said that he always wants and tries to call on businesses and benefactors to support and help invest in building swimming pools and swimming pools at schools in the area to educate skills. to prevent drowning injuries and to provide swimming lessons for students in schools, especially in remote and mountainous areas, areas at risk of drowning accidents for students. At the same time, support the investment in swimming pool business in the community.

Ms. Le Thi Huong – Director of Quang Tri Department of Education and Training believes that, if there is a policy, scheme, mechanism, strategy, detailed regulations on building swimming pools, teaching swimming in schools, and higher If swimming can be researched to make swimming a compulsory subject, it will be easier for localities and schools to implement, and the success rate will be higher.

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Ms. Le Thi Huong – Director of the Department of Education and Training of Quang Tri province believes that, if there is a policy, scheme, mechanism, strategy, detailed regulations on building swimming pools in schools, localities and schools easier to implement, higher success rate. Photo: NV

Mr. Nguyen Van Tam – Deputy Director of Quang Ngai Department of Education and Training said that every year, children drowned, especially in Quang Ngai, there were very serious cases. The April 2016 drowning incident, at Tra Khuc river, Nghia Ha commune, Quang Ngai city (Quang Ngai province) caused the death of 9 6th grade students, shaking the whole country. Therefore, building swimming pools and teaching children to swim right in schools is essential, urgent and strategic.

“Swimming is a subject that must be taught and practiced immediately, not only theory, it is not effective. In fact, there is no swimming pool, so teachers do not have the conditions to show all their enthusiasm and skills to help students have skills. swimming ability. Out of 38 schools under the management of the Department, only one school has a swimming pool, which is a very thoughtful thing,” said Mr. Tam.

Mr. Do Van Binh – Secretary of the Cam Lo District Party Committee said that to build a swimming pool in the school, in addition to the budget, it also needs the cooperation of the business community, benefactors, especially parents. According to Mr. Binh, with limited resources, there should be a project to build a swimming pool for the primary school first, then continue to expand when possible.

Mai Thi Lien Giang – Deputy Director of Quang Binh Department of Education and Training said that from 2014 to 2020, the number of children drowning in this province increased dramatically. In 2017, there were 32 children, in 2018 18 children, in 2019 41 children, in the first 6 months of 2021, 9 children died from drowning.

Building swimming pools in schools is a very urgent job, in order to organize swimming lessons for students from an early age, this is the most effective measure to minimize the number of children and students drowning and help raise health and stature for future generations.

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Mr. Do Van Binh – Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Quang Tri province said that with current limited resources, it is advisable to think about building a swimming pool and teaching swimming for primary school first, then staff wide if possible. Photo: NV

Dr.BS Vu Thi Kim Hoa – Deputy Director of the Children’s Department, Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said that every year in Vietnam, about 2,000 children drown. Only about 40% of elementary and junior high school children know how to swim. Not knowing how to swim is one of the many causes of drowning in children.

According to Ms. Hoa, building swimming pools in schools to teach children to swim is a matter of concern and depends on the actual situation in each locality to deploy appropriately.

In order to prevent child drowning, it is necessary to intervene synchronously, not only teaching swimming but also communicating to raise awareness about child drowning prevention, teaching children safety skills in the water environment; building a safe environment; babysitting supervision…

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Mai Thi Lien Giang – Deputy Director of Quang Binh Department of Education and Training said that building swimming pools and teaching swimming in schools are effective measures to limit drowning. Photo: Quang Binh Newspaper.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh De – Director of the Department of Physical Education, Ministry of Education and Training, said that students do not know how to swim but still voluntarily go to bath, swim or invite each other to play and joke in places near ponds, lakes, rivers and streams. …, many cases just playing near the pond, unfortunately fell into the water leading to death.

Drowning causes irreparable mental pain to relatives and families, creating confusion and insecurity for children, families and the whole society.

The construction of swimming pools, teaching swimming in schools is very necessary. Students learn to swim, in addition to contributing to the prevention and prevention of drowning, if they practice swimming regularly, it will be very beneficial for their health, harmonious development, and physical balance.

Child drowning prevention: Parents should support

Ms. Pham Thi Anh Nguyet – Principal of Primary School No. 2 Truong Quang Trong (Truong Quang Trong ward, Quang Ngai city, Quang Ngai province) said that for many years, the school has been donated by sponsors with plastic tarpaulin swimming pools. , 120m2 wide, can accommodate 35 students swimming at the same time.

The cost of installing a swimming pool, roof, borehole, and water filtration system is about 300 million VND. After 5 years of use, the plastic tarpaulin of the swimming pool will be changed once, the cost is about 35 million VND.

Thanks to the swimming pool, students have been taught to swim since grade 1. By grade 4 and 5, they all know how to swim. Each student will pay 150,000 VND/year to pay for teachers and swimming pool maintenance and repair services.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Huong – the mother who lost her child (LQH, SN 2006) that we mentioned in article 1 confided that since her son drowned, she has never had a good night’s sleep.

“For families who have lost children like me, I understand the need to teach their children to swim to protect their own lives. I call on the State to have guidelines and projects on building swimming pools and teaching swimming in schools. Parents, please take care, join hands to contribute constructively to protect your children’s lives, don’t let it be like my family. Any mistake can be corrected, but the child can’t swim, if drowning occurs, It can’t be fixed,” Huong said with tears in her eyes.

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Dr. BS Vu Thi Kim Hoa – Deputy Director of the Department of Children, Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs. Photo: Anh Tuan/Lao Dong Newspaper.

Mr. Tran Xuan Dong (living in Ward 4, Dong Ha City) – the father who lost his child to drowning when he was only 9 years old, which we mentioned in lesson 1, said that in difficult families, parents like him go. make a living from morning until evening to come home. Therefore, teaching swimming and taking children to swimming lessons is very difficult. As a person who suffers from the pain of losing a child due to drowning, Mr. Dong said that each parent contributes several hundred thousand dong to build swimming pools, teach swimming in schools to increase the ability to protect their children’s lives throughout the year. Life is a very cheap price.

“To this day, I still regret letting my child not know how to swim,” Dong confided.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Tam (SN 1967, Luong Kim village, Trieu Phuoc commune, Trieu Phong) has been suffering from the loss of a child for 4 years now. Mr. Tam’s son is NHH (SN 2005) and his classmate TTV rowed a boat to the river near his house to have fun. Unfortunately, the boat overturned, the two could not swim, fell into the river like two stones falling into the water, sinking.

Turning his eyes to the riverbank, Mr. Tam said that if his son could swim, he would be in 10th grade today.

“I see that most parents want to have a swimming pool to teach swimming in schools, so they are willing to contribute funds and other sources to build. I think, if it is organized on a mass scale, it will only take a short time for all of them to be built. All students will learn to swim, thereby reducing the rate of children drowning.

Assoc. Therefore, if building a swimming pool, it is necessary to carefully study and prepare a huge financial resource.

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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh De – Director of Physical Education Department, Ministry of Education and Training. Photo: Minh Phong

To build swimming pools in the system of high schools, the Government needs to directly direct and assign tasks to each province/city, based on the specific situation and conditions of the locality to have a roadmap for implementation. ensure efficiency. Especially in difficult provinces, it is necessary to have a specific mechanism and link with the national target programs to be effective and feasible.

Mr. De wished that social organizations, individuals and businesses should accompany the Government, ministries, especially schools to pay attention and support in implementing solutions to prevent child drowning, learn born.

Drowning can be completely controlled with the active and effective involvement of local authorities, schools and families in ensuring the safety of the living environment, education, and care management. children and especially when children and students know how to listen to and comply with safety regulations to prevent and prevent drowning “- Mr. De said.

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