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• General Safety
• Police and Fire: 10111
It is important to know local emergency numbers for your own area as well. Memorise these and make sure your children know what to do and whom to call in an emergency as well.
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CAPFSA updates and analyse available statistics on accidental death and injuries. Click the link above to see an analysis of injury statistics. These statistics form the basis of all the preventative work CAPFSA undertakes.
Since 1991, CAPFSA has systematically kept a computerised database of all injured children presenting to the Red Cross Children’s Hospital Trauma Unit. The number of children seen annually approximate 10 000 children, we therefore have presently approximately 140 000 childhood injuries recorded in our database.
The database serves the purpose of a national surveillance system on childhood injuries in South Africa. The database has been systematically analysed for a large number of clinical and epidemiological studies regarding childhood injuries. Especially adapted data mining computer programming has been utilised to analyse our data.
We published extensively from the database in various fields such as child abuse, child sexual abuse, gunshot injuries, ingestion of foreign bodies, traffic related Injuries, facial injuries, head injuries, dog bites, and specific orthopaedic injuries such as cervical spine injuries and fractures in osteogenesis imperfecta.
Our database is regarded as the major resource regarding childhood injuries in South Africa by national and international organisations, non-governmental as well as governmental institutions.
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