Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHSChild strangulation risk from Venetian blinds
Venetian blinds should be redesigned to safeguard babies and toddlers from accidentally being strangled to death by the looped cords, according to a paediatrician.
Dr Mahesh Masand, consultant paediatrician at Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin, successfully treated a toddler found hanging from the looped cord of a blind, but warns that at least one child dies each year in the UK this way. He said: “There should be a safer way of raising a blind than using a looped cord”.
He recommended that parents take precautions by shortening loops or installing devices that kept loops taut against walls.
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Anonymous | 5-Jul-2010 9:38 pm
Well done that Doctor!
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Anonymous | 27-Jul-2010 6:42 pm
About time too.
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