THE Department of Health (DoH) Epidemiology Bureau has recorded 86 firecracker injuries in the countdown to the New Year, still 47 percent lower in the same period of 2016. The cases recorded by sentinel hospital since the start of the monitoring on December 21, included 44 from Metro Manila. As of posting time, there have been no recorded deaths, fireworks ingestion and stray bullet injuries. Seventy of the cases were blast injuries without amputation, 14 having eye injuries and four cases involving amputation due to blast injury. “Fireworks injuries are preventable.

Source: Manila Times December 31, 2017 06:22 UTC