04-01-15 17:22 pm – Source: Reuters
Two boys stabbing off firecrackers on the streets. © anp
On the Emergency Departments (ED) of hospitals in the Netherlands during the Year 574 victims of fireworks accidents reported. That’s 126 fewer than last year, a decrease of 18 percent.
According to research from VeiligheidNL and the NIS. For this study, data from the Injury Information System (LIS) of VeiligheidNL combined with the figures on the number of injuries that collected the NIS in the Emergency Departments. In all injuries with old and new for which the type of fireworks is registered, decorative fireworks and firecrackers were just as often the cause of the injury.
The last few years were lovers on New Year’s Eve from 10.00 off fireworks. The last turn of the year if it starts at 18:00. The number of people this year on New Year’s Eve until 18:00 injuries from fireworks rose 8 percent of the total. Last year it was about 23 percent of the number of injured.
Most of the victims this year had hand injuries (37 percent). After that people with eye injuries (24 percent)
. Illegal fireworks
The Dutch Society for Plastic Surgery (NVPC) announced today that plastic surgeons this turn of 69 patients with especially severe hand injuries have helped. Last year there were seventy and during the turn of the year 2012-2013 forty. According to the association, the number of victims until the end of January still rise considerably.
The NVPC reported that over 60 percent of the injuries to the hands due to illegal fireworks, and 40 percent of legal fireworks. The incidents involving very young children are striking. So were on 1 January in Amsterdam and The Hague children aged nine and eleven seriously injured when they found cobras tried to stabbing to.
Trauma Surgeons have ended Year reported treating several dozen patients with fireworks injuries. It was particularly serious burns, lacerations, amputations and fractures.
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