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A two-year-old boy died this Saturday, drowned in a pool in the parish of Joane, municipality of Famalicão (Braga), a source from the Braga District Emergency Operations Command (CDOS) informed Lusa.
Speaking to Lusa, a source from the CDOS in Braga said that the warning to drown a two-year-old boy in a swimming pool at his house was given at 12:40 pm today and an ambulance with two members of the Firefighters Association Volunteers was sent to the scene. Famalicenses.
Fonte dos Famalicenses told Lusa that when they arrived at the scene the boy was “out of the pool” and that the victim received resuscitation maneuvers for about an hour.
The boy was declared dead at the scene by the Famalicão Medical Emergencies and Resuscitation team (VMER) that traveled to the scene, said the same source from the Famalicenses firefighters.
The boy’s body was transported to the Famalicão morgue.
According to information from the Association for the Promotion of Child Safety (APSI), “drowning in Portugal continues to be the second leading cause of accidental death in children” and in 2028 seven children died from drowning, according to the APSI website.
This year in June, two children died, about 48 hours apart, from drowning in swimming pools.
The most recent data (up to 2018), published by APSI, shows that in the last eight years, on average, nine children died from drowning per year and 26 were hospitalized, with the highest number of drownings occurring up to four years. years.
Up to the age of nine, swimming pools are the first place of drowning, and between the ages of 10 and 18, rivers, streams and lakes become the places where the highest number of these types of accidents are recorded.
Despite the numbers, APSI says that in the last eight years, the average number of drowning deaths has decreased (average / year 2011-2018, 9.3%) compared to the previous six years (average / year 2005-2010, 16.5%).
According to data from the APSI provided in June of this year, in the last 17 years there have been 254 drownings with fatal outcome in children and young people, with 593 hospitalizations after drowning, which means that for every child who dies, approximately two were hospitalized (total 17 years).
The action plan of the National Strategy for Children’s Rights for the period 2021-2022 should be drawn up in March, according to a resolution of the Council of Ministers published this month in the Diário da República.
