With New Year’s Eve just some days away, authorities hospitals throughout the nation are on code white alert for doable firework-related accidents.
According to Chino Gaston’s “24 Oras” report on Tuesday, code white alert signifies that emergency providers are on standby 24/7, and medical doctors and nurses are on name for responsibility.
The East Avenue Medical Center is making ready medical tools, medicines, and disinfectant for firecracker-related damage remedy on the emergency ward.
“As of yesterday, wala pa kaming naitatala na fireworks-related injury. Based doon sa mga nakaraang taon mga ganitong panahon mayroon nang naitala na kaso,” stated Dr. John Paul Ner, a medical specialist 2 at East Avenue Medical Center.
Five further circumstances of fireworks-related accidents have been recorded within the nation which introduced the full quantity to 25, the Department of Health (DOH) stated Tuesday.
DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire stated the caseload of firecracker-related accidents up to now was 14% greater than the 22 circumstances reported throughout the identical interval in 2021.
The high fireworks concerned in accidents have been the boga with eight associated accidents, adopted by whistle bomb with 4, kwitis with three, and 5-star with two. These circumstances have been recorded from December 21 to 27.
“Last year, at this same time period we had 22 cases so our cases right now are 14% higher than that of last year,” Vergeire stated.
The DOH earlier urged the general public to proceed practising safer celebrations of New Year by utilizing alternative routes to create loud noises.
“This is a good indicator of practicing safer new years away from physical injuries and emergencies,” the DOH stated. — Richa Noriega/DVM, GMA Integrated News
