DOH: Lesser Firecracker-related Cases This Year

The number of firecracker-related incidents has dropped this year, from 894 last year to 804 this year.

According to Department of Health (DOH) assistant secretary Eric Tayag, of the 804 firecracker-related injuries, 793 of these were from “actual firecrackers” like the banned ‘piccolo’.

The DOH also recorded two casualties: one a nine-year-old boy from Tondo from firecrackers and nine from stray bullets.

In the same period last year, there were 894 firecracker-related injuries, 867 of which were from actual firecrackers, two from firecracker ingestion and 25 from stray bullets.

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