Awareness campaign launched on accidents involving children

A campaign called “Protect me, I want to live” has been launched to prevent accidents involving children. The campaign is one of the stages of the “Regionalization of the Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Services in Moldova” Project, Info-Prim Neo reports. The campaign’s message will be communicated to every citizen of Moldova, and messengers of the methods for preventing child-involving accidents will be employees of the Traffic Police, social services employees throughout the country, as well as family doctors and pediatricians. The instruction of representative of these structures took place during a meeting organized by the Center for Health Policy and Public Health. The event was based on a presentation of an international study on accidents that frequently involve children (car accidents, fires, drownings and poisonings). Also, the event succinctly presented methods to prevent such accidents, and methods of communicating them to the general public. The participants were instructed to collaborate with the mass-media, in order to ensure that information is spread out objectively. “Accidents involving children have become a world-wide phenomenon. In this context, UNICEF issued a global alert; thus, we have to prevent these accidents by teaching the masses about the dangers awaiting their children at every corner. The accidents are not random; they are a result of our imprudence”, mentioned the training program moderator, Kassandra Butu, doctor of pediatrics in Romania. In time the project’s organizers intend to get the Ministry of Education involved in the implementation of this project as well. The “Regionalization of the Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Services in Moldova” Project is implemented with the financial support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, by the Ministry of Healthcare, and the Center for Health Policy and Public Health.