A girl aged three from Truseni village of Chisinau municipality was admitted to the surgical reanimatology section of the Mother and Child Institute after swallowing, as her mother said, six pills for preventing venous thrombosis, taken by her grandmother. The Institute’s spokesman Doru Dendiu has told IPN that the doctors suspected the girl ingested also psychotropic drugs. This fact was confirmed as a result of discussions with the mother.

In the evening of July 7, the child was hospitalized with movement difficulties and speech disorder. Her state of health has now improved. The child speaks, swallows and plays, but still cannot move steadily. Her mother told the doctors that the girl was at home together with the grandmother and the incident was the result of a moment’s inattention.

To avoid such cases, the grownups must never leave the children unsupervised as a moment’s inattention can endanger their lives. Special attention must be paid in the families where some of the members take medicines regularly. The drugs must not be left on the table, nightstand or other places. Being of different colors and looking like candidates, the pills attract the children and should be thus kept in locked places. The expired medicines must be thrown away in places that are not within children’s reach.

More information about how to protect the child is available on www.parinti.md and can be also found out by following the information campaigns centering on the prevention of accidents involving children carried out within the REPEMOL (Regionalization of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Service in Moldova) Project that is financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and implemented by the Foundation of the Center for Health Policies and Services.