The statistics of injured with burns from the manipulation of fireworks or with eyes hurt by the typical corks dropped drastically in the province of Buenos Aires. To the point that in the celebration of Christmas, throughout the province of Buenos Aires There was only one wounded who was registered at the Sor María Ludovica de La Plata Children’s Hospital.
Sources from the Ministry of Health indicated to 0221.com.ar that “there was only one case of a minor”. It is – as indicated – A 6-year-old boy suffered burns on his right arm from a fireworks explosion.
The same sources detailed that after being treated this Sunday morning, the little boy was admitted to a care center in the Saavedra Park area.
This isolated fact confirms a progressive decrease in incidents that have been decreasing year by year. Just as there were no other events reported from public hospitals throughout the province, in the case of La Plata there were no episodes of this type in which SAME ambulances had to intervene.
Thus, for example, in the Rossi Hospital, specialized in ophthalmology, there was also an injury but in this case it was a person affected by a stone.
But with regard to the fireworks, the ministerial sources indicated that in none of the hospitals in La Plata that depend on the Province (San Martín, Rossi, Gutiérrez, Alejandro Korn, San Juan de Dios and Sor María Ludovica) there were injuries. .
In parallel, it was learned that a total of nine people, seven of them minors, were injured by the use of fireworks and domestic accidents in the City of Buenos Aires, and specialists considered that these figures represent a notable decrease in the number of cases.
