Over 70% of children who drowned could not swim and were not using flotation devices, Spanish study finds
Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
A recent study analyses cases of drowning attended to in 21 hospitals in Spain during the summers of 2009 and 2010. 60% of the victims were younger than six years old and more than 70% did not know how to swim and were not using flotation devices when they drowned. Furthermore, in eight in every ten cases their carers admitted to having supervised them less attentively.