Hanoi (VNA) — The Prime ജMinister has approved a programme to prevent children from♋ having accidents from 2016-2020.
It aims to see a decline in the rate of children falling victims to accidents to six per thousand and that of children killed in accidents to 1.7 per thousand.
The programme also aims to reduce the number of children killed in road accidents by 25 percent and build five million safe houses, 10,000 safe schools and 300 communes with safe community standards.
Communication work will be enhanced to raise the awareness of injury prevention among children, the community, relevant agencies and staff.
Safe houses, schools, roads and communities will be built while consultation and treatment services will be provided for children and their families.
The programme aims to spread the pilot models in a bid to develop a safe network for children while connecting relevant bodies to devise measures to prevent fatal drowning and traffic accidents.
The programme has estimated funds of 670 billion VND (30 million USD). Of this total, 160 billion VND (7 million USD) comes from the state budget, 420 billion VND (19 million USD) is from the local budget and the rest will be mobilised from international sources.
Accidental injuries among children are a pressing problem around the world, especially in Vietnam, where the rate of accidental injuries and deaths is among the highest in the world.
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The country still has a lack of education and communication campaigns designed to help raise adults’ knowledge on child injury prevention, said officials involved in the field.
Nguyen Trong An, deputy director of the Department of Children Protection and Care under the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), said that the home was supposed to be the place where children are best protected, but 80 to 90 percent of child injures occur there.
More attention should be placed on protecting children's rights and welfare, said Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Doan Mau Diep.
The carelessness of parents has been blamed to an increasing number of injuries of children, the HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, has said.
More than 100 children drowned in Vietnam during the first two months of this year, a 6 percent increase compared with the same period last year, according to incomplete statistics compiled by the Childcare and Protection Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
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A swimming class for children. (Source: VNA)
