(MENAFN- GetNews) When it comes to child safety, every detail in the home matters – and PVC venetian blinds with traditional cord designs are no exception. In Europe and America, where regulations on ...

A pediatrician is calling for Venetian blinds to be redesigned to safeguard babies and toddlers from accidentally being strangled to death by the looped cords. In the online edition of the British ...

HUNDREDS of young children have been strangled to death by cords hanging from window blinds, shades and curtains, it has been revealed. At least 440 kids under the age of eight passed away silently ...

The tragic news of a blind cord death has always met with such compassion and frustration by the public. The media coverage of each and every individual tragedy acts as a reminder to those who have ...

Hearing my four-year-old son’s cry from the next room, I assumed he had fallen out with his playmate over a toy, or their favourite spot on the sofa, where I’d last seen them sitting together, ...

A 3-year-old accidentally hanged himself by getting tangled in a Venetian blind cord in his bedroom while playing with his younger brothers, police said. Christopher Joseph Gardner died Thursday at a ...

The parents of a two-year-old child who hanged himself from a Venetian blind cord in his own home have appealed to other families to ensure a similar tragedy never occurs again. Arran Malley died in ...

Dr Mahesh Masand, consultant paediatrician at Dr Grays Hospital in Elgin, Scotland, recounts the day when a 22-month-old girl was rushed to A&E after her mother found the toddler hanging from the ...

Dr Mahesh Masand, consultant paediatrician at Dr Grays Hospital in Elgin, Scotland, recounts the day when a 22-month-old girl was rushed to A&E after her mother found the toddler hanging from the ...