Saudi Doctor calls for compulsory rule to put children in car seats

Saudi Arabia called for an advisory need to activate the law and mandatory to place the child under the age of 5 years the chair back and fasten seat belt “SETE charr” in the vehicle and give fines for offenders. Said Dr. Maha Al Executive Director of the Family Safety Program through the intervention yesterday [...]

Saudi Arabia called for an advisory need to activate the law and mandatory to place the child under the age of 5 years the chair back and fasten seat belt “SETE charr” in the vehicle and give fines for offenders.

Said Dr. Maha Al Executive Director of the Family Safety Program through the intervention yesterday in the First World Conference pediatric emergency medicine and the prevention of injuries and disabilities, organized by King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh and wound up yesterday at the King Fahd Cultural Center in Riyadh: “You must be social institutions in turn provide Voluntary seats for children in the car and distributed to hospitals, women and child birth he put the place right under the mortality rate during the incidents to 200%. ”

She added: “The status of the child in the lap of his mother or his father while driving, they set the child air cushion in the event of a traffic accident and therefore keep the child as a shield to protect and this is a great danger.”

She drew Dr. Maha Almunif to a remarkable rise to the emergency physicians and their knowledge of cases of violence against children and said in this regard: “There is good improvement with an awareness and 38 centers for child protection but there is still lack of reporting of cases.

For his part, Dr. Mohamed Alfaifi President of the Organizing Committee for the Global Conference pediatric emergency medicine and the prevention of injuries and disabilities that the number of medical specialists in pediatric emergency medicine Kingdom does not exceed the 30 doctors and most doctors in specialized hospitals are the specialties of pediatrics without specialization of emergency and in need of fellowship and training in this specialty.

He attributed the reason for the lack of pediatric emergency medicine doctors for being a new specialty, said: “It was the last period of emergency medicine covers adult children, but 20 years ago in the developed world in America and Canada established a new section under the name of emergency medicine to children, they found that a child needs to separate this specialization.

And Dr. Alfaifi that the Kingdom needed to 10 thousand doctors specializing in pediatric emergency medicine, pointing out that each year apply for the Fellowship of the Interior of Saudi more than 7 doctors only.

To bring up the Conference over the days, which was adopted by the health disciplines about 30 hours of continuing medical education and the American Academy of Medicine Continuing Education with 31 hours in the future and assess the current status of the emergency departments of children and participants discussed ways to address heart failure and circulatory shock and quality and ways of improving methods prevention in addition to the establishment of workshops on how to deal with bone injuries, respiratory failure in children, wounds and how to deal with it. (via Alriyadh.com)