All districts in HCM City have been told by the city’s People’s Committee to give priority to allocating land and funds to build at least one new swimming pool each year in their localities until 2020.
Children compete in a race at Ky Dong Swimming Pool in HCM City (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) - All districts in HCMCity have been told by the city’s People’s Committee to give priority toallocating land and funds to build at least one new swimming pool each year intheir localities until 2020.
The aim is to reduce the number of drowningincidents in the city.
The committee will set up a steering boardcomposed of the committee’s deputy chairman and representatives of severalagencies who will help implement the drowning-prevention programme.
Foreign and domestic organisations andindividuals will be asked to invest in the pools, and schools will be asked tocreate conditions for swimming lessons.
Local managers of public swimming pools havebeen urged to reduce rental fees for schools.
Nguyen Thi Thu, deputy chairwoman of the municipalPeople’s Committee, said that inspection of pools would also be stepped up.
Children would be taught swimming and otherskills to help prevent drowning, Thu added.
The city targets reducing the number ofchildren’s deaths caused by drowning by 6 percent by 2020.
The city’s outlying district of Hoc Mon has beenchosen to pilot the swimming universalisation programme.
In the 2017-2018 period, five new swimming poolsare expected to offer swimming lessons to students in the district, accordingto the Department of Education and Training.
The outlying district of Can Gio, which is thefirst locality to have mobile swimming pools, has 22,161 ha of rivers andcanals. But only 17 percent of its students know how to swim.
As of last April, HCM City had 37 schools withswimming pools.
In Can Gio District, only 21 percent of primaryschool students, 30 percent of secondary school students, and 30 percent ofhigh school students know how to swim.
All education departments around the countryhave been urged to instruct students to avoid swimming in lakes, rivers andstreams that have warning signs posted.
The education departments have also been told toencourage organisations and individuals to help schools provide swimminglessons to students.
Training courses in swimming will be held forteachers by the Ministry of Education and Training in co-operation with theMinistry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Around 2,800 Vietnamese children died fromdrowning in the 2010-2015 period, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalidsand Social Affairs.-VNA
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Children compete in a race at Ky Dong Swimming Pool in HCM City (Photo: VNA) 
