Crackers caused burn injuries to more than 100 people in the State capital during Deepawali celebration. In the emergency ward of Doon hospital here 42 people with burn injuries induced with fire crackers got treatment.
On Thursday Nine year old Arman a resident of President's body guard colony located on Rajpur road was rushed to the Burn unit of Coronation hospital. It is learnt that the boy had collected used crackers left over after Deepawali celebration and was trying to extract gun powder from them when the collected pile caught fire and exploded causing facial burn injuries to him. The doctors of the Burn unit informed that the child suffered 15 percent burns and is out of danger. The senior Medical Officer of Doon hospital Dr N K Bedi said that no serious burn case was reported in the hospital and most the people were discharged later. He said that two cases of breathlessness were also reported on Deepawali. Dr Bedi said that the smoke caused by the firecrackers causes breathlessness to many people. During winters the smoke mixes with the fog constituting highly toxic Smog which envelopes the urban dwellings. The spokesperson of Mahant Indiresh Hospital, Bhupendra Raturi said that few burn cases were reported on the Deepawali night but none of them were serious. In CMI hospital five minor cases of burn injuries caused by fire crackers were reported. The emergency wards of all the major hospitals of the city were kept ready for the burn cases on the occasion of Deepawali. The Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) of Doon hospital Dr R S Aswal said that all the doctors of the hospital were on call. The skin specialists and ENT doctors were deployed in the emergency ward of the hospital apart from Emergency Medical Officers (EMO).