SUNDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) — Young children can drown in as little as 2 inches of water, so parents should be especially vigilant monitoring their kids around backyard swimming pools, experts say.
Doctors from The Trauma Centre of The Montreal Children’s Hospital also warned that toddlers and pre-schoolers, in particular, are very curious, impulsive and unable to recognize potential dangers at a pool.
Mandatory fencing around pools is a great step in the right direction, Trauma Director Debbie Friedman said in a hospital news release.
Eight year old dies in council pool Northallerton – The lifeless body of an eight year old boy was pulled from the water in a North Yorkshire pool yesterday with his mother questioning “where the hell were the life guards.” Kaimen Ward was swimming with two friends and three adults in Hambleton leisure centre where his body was pulled from the water at around 4.25pm. Lifeguards attempted to revive the youngster before the ambulance arrived but their efforts were in vain. Kaimen’s mother Caroline Ward want to know why her son was unsupervised by lifeguards and was able to drown.