After losing her two-year-old daughter in a home pool drowning in 2017, Chantal Kerlin is sharing her story to encourage
parents to educate themselves around pool safety.
“Owning a pool comes with huge responsibility. Just like wearing a seat belt in a car, if you have a pool you need to
have all the safety checks in place including a compliant pool barrier and gate”—Chantal Kerlin.
Starship Children’s Health director Dr Mike Shepherd says that even if children survive drownings, they can suffer
life-long problems.
“At least once a month a child is sustaining a brain injury as result of drowning—some kill kids, some leave kids brain
damaged with life-long problems, and the lucky ones escape without injury,” he says.
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