Parents urged to keep children safe around windows and balconies
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Officials with Primary Care Alberta are urging parents to help keep their children safe around windows and balconies this summer.
As many Albertans cool off their homes by opening windows, open windows and balconies can be a serious fall risk to children, note health officials.
Officials point out that children often learn to climb before they learn to walk, adding that toddlers and preschoolers are at the highest risk of falling from a window or balcony. However, falls can happen at any age.
Every year, health officials say young children fall from windows and balconies, resulting in EMS response, emergency department visits and, in some cases, hospitalization and death. Of the children who visited the Stollery Children’s Hospital and Alberta Children’s Hospital emergency departments for window fall-related injuries in 2024, the organization says 85 per cent were under six years of age.
