Eight children younger than five are hospitalized daily as a result of accidents at home, show data of the National Health Management Center of the Ministry of Health. One year ago, this figure stood at six. Specialists call on the parents to be more responsible and to realize and prevent the dangers in the house that can lead not only to injuries, but also to death, IPN reports.

Ala Condrea, head of the Emergency Admissions Division of the Balti Municipal Clinical Hospital, said the injuries can be prevented. “When the parents realize the dangers and supervise the children appropriately, there will be not so many scalded, poisoned and injured children and cases of death,” said the doctor, adding that the parents often ignore the recommendations and the same children are hospitalized repeatedly with different injuries.

The methods of preventing accidents at home are very simple and efficient. The children must be permanently supervised and the dangers to which they are exposed in the house should be removed.

Doctor Gheorghe Vicol, of the National Children’s Hospital “Emilian Cotaga”, said that a child is daily scalded with tea or coffee because of the parent’s recklessness. Most of these children are aged between 1 and 2. The skin of these kids is very frail and the hot liquids can leave a scar for life on them.

Many children also swallow different objects. Ana Oglinda, of the Mother and Child Center, said by 1-2 children are daily admitted to their Intensive Care and Reanimatology Section. According to the doctor, the children are very active and curious and a moment’s inattention can endanger their lives. Some of the children who swallow objects never recover fully, even if they are operated and receive treatment.

According to the National Health Management Center, the 33,500 home accidents involving children that happened in 2012 resulted in the death of 60 children younger than five as a result of suffocation, traumas, poisonings, drowning, and road accidents.