Showing posts with label World Head Injury Awareness Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Head Injury Awareness Day. Show all posts

Saturday, March 19, 2011

World Head Injury Awareness Day, 20th March, 2011


                Every year more than 5% of the people around the world get serious brain injury due to accident or fall....
How to prevent head injury?
  •  Always wear a seat belt in a motor vehicle and use appropriate child safety seat.
  • Never drive under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
  •  Always wear a helmet while driving a two wheeler, while participating in contact sports, when horseback riding.
Fall prevention methods:
  • Use the rails on the stairways, provide adequate lighting, place bars on windows, sit on safe stools, do not place obstacles in walking pathways.
Gun safety:
  • Keep guns locked in a cabinet, store guns unloaded and ammunition apart from guns.