Trial by ice: Kiev dozens are hospitalized with fractures

The situation in the coming days will only worsen.

Instead of snow in Ukraine is warming. On Wednesday the temperature starts to rise and by the end of the week will reach +5 the day and -5 at night, according to a story TSN.19:30.

So what melts during the day will freeze at night. And ice season injuries , the Ukrainians have already opened. Ice on sidewalks laid in the hospital with fractures of the residents of Kyiv and other cities. “A lot of pain. I still have half an hour lying near the road, nobody even came. Got a call at work, said that I will not broke your leg, you’re kidding me,” complains the victim Natalia Kolomiets. “This is the case. You never know where you will meet. Can the blue slip and be killed. Thank God that he is alive. I was lucky, because people passed by, and right next to ten meters away from me stood the ambulance,” says another victim Igor, who slipped on his own yard when he came out to see the payment for heat in a mailbox.

Notched decline in the number of emergency room mass takes the first victims of ice

TSN. 19:30
Today, 20:21

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The best way to protect yourself from injury on the ice around it. If your path still goes through the rink, follow a few simple rules: slightly bend your knees, move in small steps when you feel yourself start to fall, try to regroup. Fall to your side and forearm.

Such victims of the first ice per day in the emergency room the day delivered fifty. “Ligament damage, fractures, sprains, bruises,” lists the diagnoses, head of the emergency room ambulance hospital Alexander Smirnov. Doctors believe that the lion’s share of responsibility for such injuries lies with the utility that have not always managed to handle the sidewalks and clear the ice and snow.

The utility complain to the owners of shops, shopping center and homes that are required to remove the snow and knock down icicles with private facilities, but do not do it. “Entrepreneurs need to clean up around themselves to curbs or 10 meters,” recalls inspector Alex Mushta. Violators are punished with a penalty in 1700 hryvnias, if those for the day after a warning not to take appropriate measures.

In the center of Kiev fell from the roof of flats snow broke auto

Kiev
Yesterday, 15:15

Ordinary people of Kiev learned that the other is not to rely too much. A young mother Olga bought for walks with a 3 year child stroller-all terrain vehicles, and other do get to clean the approaches to the entrances, to protect it from falls and injuries of relatives and neighbors.

Meanwhile, it is worth remembering that the best way to protect yourself from injury on the ice around it. If the path still lies through the rink, follow a few simple rules: slightly bend your knees, move in small steps, and if you feel yourself start to fall, try to regroup. Fall to your side and forearm. And stay healthy!

The TSN correspondent Olga Neskorozhana

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