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.


National News Bureau Of Thailand | Children's swimming lessons to prevent more drowning incidents

My kids go to a private Catholic school. They have no grassed playing fields. Space for the children to play is restricted. What did they build to improve the children's facilities? A fcuking church. :deadhorsebig:

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Originally Posted by misskit

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.


National News Bureau Of Thailand | Children's swimming lessons to prevent more drowning incidents

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Couple of years back in my local pool, mate looked down and spotted a shimmer at the bottom of what looked like a kid that was happily splashing away nearby a few moments earlier, dived down and dragged her up, others piled in and someone resuscitated her through the wailing of (Thai) mum who had been busy with important stuff like yakking over the communal spread.

Just takes a second and down they go, no fuss, couple of mouthfuls and it's over. Good that Thap Phrik Tambon have swimming lessons, but they would do as much good by educating parents that once their kids are dead they ain't coming back.