Hamad Injury Prevention Program
Key Facts - Around 40 patients a year are treated by HMC’s Trauma Center for serious injuries as a result of bathroom injuries alone; more than motorbike or bicycle injuries.
- Every year in Qatar there about 450 home fires reported to Civil Defense.
- In Qatar, up to 60 percent of all serious injuries to children up to nine years of age occur in their own home.
Recommended Actions
- Keep your bathroom floor dry and free of objects that can be a tripping hazard, such as toys, weighing scales and wires.
- Endure you have a working smoke detector in the kitchen and outside each room that people sleep in at night.
- A child can drown in less than two minutes in as little as five centimeters of water in absolute silence. The number one piece of advice for all families is to ensure children are supervised at all times; whether in the bath tub or swimming pool, or near buckets of water and or other collections of water. 80 percent of children drown when no one is watching them.
