Anxious parents have received the all-clear after more than 60 children were taken to hospital for scans after a button batteries scare at a childcare centre on the Sunshine Coast.
A toy was found broken with an unknown quantity of batteries missing at Greenspace Childcare Centre at Bli Bli about 10.30am yesterday.
It was feared the battery had been ingested by a toddler.
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Queensland Health and paramedics arranged for 64 children to be picked up and taken to hospital for X–rays, which all came back negative.
“All children were assessed and no cases of ingestion have been reported,” a Queensland Ambulance Service spokesperson said.
The childcare centre brought in metal detectors to scan for the missing battery, but didn’t find anything.
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The centre and parents were praised for their actions.
“I commend the parents in all this, it would’ve been a daunting phone call for parents to receive about what’s happened but the childcare centre was very transparent with them,” paramedic James Mayfield said.
“Button batteries are not to be messed with … We were getting updates on the app, we were getting phone calls, everything was amazing,” parent Tahnee Tuckerman said.
“I cannot fault how well they did.”
Three children across the country have died from ingesting the batteries in the past decade.
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