In less than 5 months, Nghe An has 29 students drowned.
(Baonghean.vn) - One of the causes of death due to drowning is the fact that all people, including children, do not know how to swim and lack knowledge and skills to prevent drowning accidents.
On the morning of May 24, the Department of Culture and Sports coordinated with Thai Hoa town to organize the launching ceremony for the whole population to practice swimming and prevent drowning in 2019 at Bau Sen Stadium, Thai Hoa town.
Attending the ceremony were representatives of the Departments of Culture and Sports; Education and Training; Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, leaders of 11 mountainous districts of Nghe An province and more than 600 students from schools in Thai Hoa town.
Recently, in many localities across the province, the situation of people who know how to swim but still drown and the situation of children drowning in groups due to not knowing how to prevent and not knowing how to save drowning is on the rise.
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| Representatives of 11 districts signed a commitment for all people to practice swimming to prevent drowning. |
The organization of the 2019 National Swimming Training Launch Ceremony to prevent drowning aims to promote the benefits and effects of swimming training, safety skills in the water environment and the prevention of drowning accidents for all subjects and children, contributing to gradually minimizing the occurrence of drowning accidents.
In the whole Nghe An province, in 2017, 24 students drowned, in 2018, 20 students, and in the first 5 months of 2019, there were 29 students.
This is an important activity in mobilizing the entire population to actively participate in learning to swim to prevent drowning and create a useful and healthy playground, improving health and physical fitness for the young generation. Through this, promoting the role and responsibility of agencies, organizations, families, schools, all levels, sectors, unions and the whole society in the work of preventing drowning.
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| Representatives of the organizing committee gave life jackets to poor students in Thai Hoa town. |
Since 2019, launching ceremonies at units and localities will be held annually and promoted during holidays.
At the launching ceremony, representatives of 11 districts: Ky Son, Tuong Duong, Anh Son, Con Cuong, Quy Hop, Quy Chau, Que Phong, Thanh Chuong, Tan Ky, Nghia Dan and Thai Hoa town signed a commitment to encourage the whole population to practice swimming and prevent drowning.
Also this morning, many schools in the 11 districts above signed a commitment to build a safe swimming model with the motto "All students know how to swim", "The whole society knows how to swim".
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| The organizers instructed students on drowning rescue skills at the launching ceremony. |
At the launching ceremony, the organizers presented 20 life jackets to 20 poor students in Thai Hoa town.
On the same afternoon, the Department of Culture and Sports will organize a training course and deploy the 2019 safe swimming program to prevent drowning in Quy Hop district.
