Vizcaya man is 1st stray bullet victim | Inquirer News

Vizcaya man is 1st stray bullet victim

/ 12:10 AM December 30, 2016

A man from Nueva Vizcaya became the first victim of stray bullet-related injuries in the Department of Health’s (DOH) monitoring of holiday injuries as the country prepares to welcome the New Year.

In its latest report, the DOH said a 27-year-old man from Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, was the first case of stray bullet-related injury. He is confined at the Veterans Regional Hospital.

The man sustained a gunshot wound to the head inside his house on Dec. 25, the health department said.

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As of Thursday, the DOH had recorded 105 firecracker-related injuries, a figure which is 42 percent lower than the five-year average and 36 percent lower than the count in the same period last year.

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In this year’s monitoring, the DOH noted that 97 of the victims of firecracker-related injuries were males, while 79 were children below the age of 15.

The victims’ ages ranged from as young as 3 years old to as old as 63 years old, the agency said.

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The DOH added that 84 of the cases were blast injuries without any amputation and that 77 involved victims younger than 15 years old.

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In addition, 83 of the cases involved active users of firecrackers, of whom 65 were below 15 years old.

Piccolo remains the top cause of firecracker-related injuries with 61 cases, followed by boga with 10 cases, and whistle bomb with six.

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