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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
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ROXAS City – Local health officials urged Capisnons to avoid injuries during holiday celebrations.
They are particularly discouraging the use of firecrackers, according to an information officer at the Provincial Health Office (PHO).
“We want people to be always injury-free,” said Ayr Altavas.
The PHO hopes to have zero firecracker-related injuries, but it already recorded its first of such case: a 9-year-old boy from Pontevedra town.
Surveillance of firecracker blast and stray bullet injuries started Dec. 21 and will end Jan. 5.
Health secretary Paulyn Jean Ubial called on the public to use safe merrymaking instruments and alternative noisemakers such as torotot, car horns and loud music.
Ubial also encouraged local government units to hold a “community fireworks display” instead of using firecrackers.
Across the Philippines from Dec. 21, 2015 to Jan. 5, 2016, there were 932 injuries related to holiday celebrations, Department of Health records showed. The figure was 8 percent higher than the 860 cases the year before.
Most of the 932 cases (920, or 98.7 percent) were due to fireworks, 10 (1.1 percent) were caused by stray bullets and two (.2 percent) were cases of firecracker ingestion, the Health department said. (PIA/PN)
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