Toys bringing risk to health…? Weird!

Trafford Primary Care Trust has been clearing out toys saying they can be a health risk and there is a fair chance of toys spreading infectious germs among children. It has been reported that the Department of Health Guidelines was behind taking this decision and even though now that the children find nothing to play with there, TPC (Trafford Primary Care) authorities have told the staff to get rid of the toys.

Martin Rathfelder was taken aback when his three-year-old son found nothing to play with at Seymour Grove Health Centre in Old Trafford. He said he was disappointed to find out that the TPC were banning toys on their grounds and that their policy seemed to have been decided without conferring with the people it was affecting.

A senior doctor labeled this move to be a ‘bureaucracy gone mad' move, pointing towards other hospitals that are introducing more toys and they make sure they are cleaned properly on daily basis because they believe that if children would have something to play with at hospitals, they will not mind coming to see the doctors, when there is a need to that is.

While TPC is getting rid of all the toys from its clinics, other hospitals and surgeries have removed soft toys that cannot be cleaned properly and have introduced a wide range or other playing games. Their earlier ‘bureaucratic' move was provoked by an update to their code of practice to control and prevent infections but probably in competition with other health centers or due to some other reasons, TPC is also considering on bringing in plastic toys now.

While children are convinced to go see a doctor on the basis of attraction that is given to them which is toys, because they are obviously scared of injections and cry out loud at the sight of medicines, health centers should not scare them away by removing toys that children come after.