DoH fears 'cracker injuries may breach 900 by New Year By JENNY F. MANONGDO December 28, 2010

DoH fears 'cracker injuries may breach 900 by New Year

By JENNY F. MANONGDO

December 28, 2010, 6:21pm

 

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DoH) is projecting the number of fireworks-related injuries to rise to at least 900 between Wednesday and New Year’s Day based on statistics which showed 173 people injured from December 21 until Tuesday afternoon.

Citing DoH surveillance records, health officials said they are worried over the escalating number of victims – a huge number of them children below 10 years old or 43 percent of the total number of firecracker victims..... MORE

Source:  Manila Bulletin

URL: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/295255/doh-fears-cracker-injuries-may-breach-900-new-year