CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) recorded a total of 36 firecracker-related injuries and two victims of stray bullets in the entire region from December
Fewer firecracker and stray bullet victims were brought to the different hospital in the region during the Christmas and New Year’s celebrations according to a report by the Department of Health in Central Visayas. | Gerard Vincent Francisco
CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Department of Health in Central Visayas recorded a total of 36 firecracker-related injuries andCebu tops the list with 26 firecracker-related injuries and two victims of stray bullets coming from the cities of Mandaue and Talisay. One firecracker victim from Lapu-Lapu City needed to have a limb amputated due to severe injuries, said the DOH-7 Injury Surveillance Report released at 12 noon on Wednesday, January 2020.
The DOH-7 list already includes the two minors who were brought to the Cebu City Medical Center on Tuesday, December 31, 2019 for the treatment of their firecracker burns.But the DOH report said that this year’s toll on injuries is lower by 24 percent compared to their December 2018 to January 1, 2019 tally.
For the same period last year, a total of 50 injuries with three victims of stray bullets were recorded. / dcbThe comments uploaded on this site do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of management and owner of Cebudailynews. We reserve the right to exclude comments that we deem to be inconsistent with our editorial standards.
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