LEGAZPI CITY — The Department of Health (DOH) Bicol has reported four firecracker-related injuries before Christmas.
Samuel Banico, coordinator of Violence and Injury Prevention Program of the DOH Bicol, said the last incident was recorded at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday in Ligao City in Albay province, where an 8-year-old girl suffered an injury in her eye due to a piccolo.
On Monday, at 9:30 p.m., a 29-year-old man also suffered from eye injury caused by a mini-bomb in Pili town in Camarines Sur province.
The first two incidents were recorded during the weekend caused by five star and lucis.
Banico said in the same period last year, six firecracker injury cases were recorded.
Most of the injuries in 2018 were caused by kwitis, piccolo and lucis, Banico added.