On the occasion of Diwali on Sunday, 15 patients came to the Advanced Eye Centre, PGIMER with eye injuries due to firecrackers.
There were seven females and 8 males including seven children, said a spokesperson of PGIMER.
Five of them had injuries in both eyes. Out of the 15 injured people, 7 people were just bystanders and not lighting the cracker themselves but got injured.
Four out of the 15 had serious open globe injuries which had to be operated upon and out of these three were children (all girls). Half of these patients were from the tricity are and half from adjoining states of Himachal, Punjab and Haryana, the spokesperson said.
Five patients reported in Advanced Trauma Centre OPD with burn injuries on Diwali. All patients except one have burn injuries on hands with 10-20 percent burns.
One patient named Vijay, 15, had a cracker burst in hand. His hand need to be amputated due to severe hand injury, the spokesperson said.
During last year’s Diwali, a total of 27 patients were treated for firecracker related injuries at the emergency services of PGIMER’s Advanced Eye Centre.