Today is World Drowning Prevention Day, WDPD.
The Day is aimed at raising awareness against increased cases of drowning and preventive measure to be taken to prevent the situation.
World Drowning Prevention Day, celebrated on July twenty-five, every year as was adopted by the United Nation in April 2021, also celebrates the actions and initiatives taken by individuals and organizations around the world to prevent drowning.
The resolution therefore mandated the World Health Organization, WHO, to coordinate actions on drowning prevention within the UN system.
The 2023 observation, which has its theme as “Do one thing to prevent drowning”, serves as an invitation to everyone, individuals or groups, to take action to advance drowning prevention.
World Drowning Prevention Day, which offers a platform to raise concern in people all over the world against the graveness of drowning, also highlights the tragic impact of drowning on families and communities and the need to offer life-saving solutions to prevent it.
According to an estimate in 2019, two hundred and thirty-six thousand people, mostly children from low and middle-income countries, like Western Pacific Region and South-East Asia Region, who are more prone to drowning related deaths, died from drowning, hence making it a worldwide issue.
Correspondent Ebele Ezeh, reports that while pools, bathtubs, wells, septic tanks and decorative ponds remain the most probable locations for drowning in children, installation of barriers to control access to water, teaching swimming, water safety and safe rescue skills, training bystanders in safe rescue, resuscitation and enforcing safe boating and shipping are measures that can be taken to prevent drowning in children.
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