Every year, nearly 1 million people nationwide suffer from accidents and injuries.

This is the latest statistics of the Ministry of Health announced at the 2nd national scientific conference on accident and injury prevention, taking place on October 26 in Hanoi.

According to Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien, the current situation of accidents and injuries in our country is very complicated. The latest statistics from the Ministry of Health show that on average, each year, the whole country has about 900,000 cases of accidents and injuries, of which over 34,000 people die, accounting for 11-12% of the total number of deaths nationwide. In which, the leading number of deaths is due to traffic accidents (accounting for 44.8%), second is drowning, of which children and adolescents account for over 50%, followed by other causes such as: work accidents, burns, poisoning, and violence are still common in the community.

Hanoi is the locality with the highest number of traffic accident deaths, followed by Ho Chi Minh City and Dong Nai. Although the number of injuries is on the rise, our country still does not have an agency to coordinate the work of preventing injuries, so the direction and coordination between ministries and branches is still weak.

(According to SGGPO)