Urgent Warning to Parents After Child Is Killed by Button Battery: ‘Truly Devastating’

Urgent Warning to Parents After Child Is Killed by Button Battery: ‘Truly Devastating’
File photo of a small battery, similar to the one that killed Francesca Asan, who died in May 2016 after swallowing a button battery. CC0/Pixabay
Tom Ozimek
By Tom Ozimek, Reporter
Updated:

The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) is raising the alarm on button batteries in households with children after a child swallowed one earlier this year and died.

“These batteries pose a very real risk to small children and babies,” said HSIB’s medical director, Dr. Kevin Stewart, according to the Daily Mail. “The consequences of swallowing a button battery can be truly devastating.”
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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