Only two days after a child was rushed to the hospital in a serious condition after drinking diesel fuel, another baby aged only ten months was hospitalized with poisoning from diesel fuel vapors. As in the previous case, the incident was the result of the adults’ carelessness as the container with diesel fuel was left open within the child’s reach.
Spokesman for the Mother and Child Institute Doru Dendiu has told IPN that the boy aged ten months from Ialoveni district was hospitalized at about 4am. On the eve, his father started the fire in the stove using diesel fuel and left the container open in the room. The boy approached it and turned it over, pouring diesel fuel on his clothes.
According to Doru Dendiu, the parents said they didn’t feel smell of fuel from the baby and realized that the child got poisoned in several hours, when he started to vomit and cough. The boy got a cold and the parents thought the cough was caused by the cold. When they saw that the state of the child worsened, they called an ambulance. The boy was admitted to the reanimatology section, but was then transferred to the specialized section and continues to receive treatment.
Two days ago, a child aged one year from Ocnita district was hospitalized after drinking diesel fuel. The boy, left in the care of a neighbor, found the fuel in an open container on the floor, near the stove. Specialists say such incidents can be avoided if the grownups keep the dangerous substances away from children and do not use them in their presence.
Specialists warn that the detergents, insecticides and dyes should be put in places up or in closed cupboards that are not within children’s reach. In case of poisoning, the children of an early age must be immediately taken to the hospital. In other cases, the parents can consult the specialist of the TOXAPEL service on 022.555.220. This service provides telephonic assistance to parents and medical personnel, teaching them how to give first aid in case of child poisoning.
More information about how to protect the child can be obtained on www.parinti.md and following the activities carried out as part of information campaigns on how to prevent home accidents involving children under five within the REPEMOL (Regionalization of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Service in Moldova) Project, which is financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and is implemented by the Center for Health Policies and Services.
