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Child Safety Month 2008 -
August 2008. more
Ten Key facts about Child Injury (PDF) Click here
First United Nations Global Road Safety Week 23 – 29 April 2007 (PDF) Click here
Choosing a swimming teacher - a guide for parents Click Here
First Aid for Burns: What to do. Graphically presented.
Click here (PDF)
Watch That Child! -
Child safety is no accident. more
Safety Tips (English) - Points to note around the house - graphically presented. click here
Safety Chart (English) - Savlons Family Safety Chart - graphically presented. click here
Trauma Injuries, Red Cross Children's Hospital
1 April 1999 - 31 March 2000 (12 months)
| Cause | Total |
Grand Total |
Percentage |
| MVA | |||
| Pedestrian | 745 |
||
| Passenger - Restrained | 18 |
||
| Passenger - Unrestrained | 106 |
||
| Passenger - Bakkie/Minibus | 77 |
||
| Cycle | 151 |
||
| Motor Cycle | 2 |
||
| Other - Boat, Train, Plane, Horse | 25 |
||
| Total MVA | 1125 |
16% |
|
| Assault | |||
| Blunt | 126 |
||
| Sharp | 25 |
||
| Rape/Sexual | 38 |
||
| Human Bite | 3 |
||
| Other | 33 |
||
| Total Assault | 225 |
3% |
|
| Burns | |||
| Flame | 117 |
||
| Fluid | 497 |
||
| Heat Contact | 37 |
||
| Electrical | 13 |
||
| Chemical | 21 |
||
| Explosion | 10 |
||
| Other | 11 |
||
| Total - Burns | 706 |
10% |
|
| Fall | |||
| Off Ben | 283 |
||
| Stairs | 115 |
||
| Attendants Arms | 68 |
||
| Playground Equipment | 252 |
||
| Mobiles | 93 |
||
| Other Heights | 613 |
||
| Other Level | 1071 |
||
| Total - Falls | 2495 |
35% |
|
| Struck by/against objects | 688 |
10% |
|
| Caught between objects | 212 |
||
| Sharp Instruments | 250 |
||
| Firearms | 42 |
||
| Machinery | 9 |
||
| Dogbite | 90 |
||
| Other bite | 7 |
||
| Immersion/drowning | 2 |
||
| Suffocation | 1 |
||
| Food foreign body | 33 |
||
| Other foreign body | 351 |
||
| Other cause | 549 |
8% |
|
| Unknown | 290 |
||
| Total | 7075 |
|
