On Saturday, December 9, a teenager born in 2007 was brought to one of the health care institutions in Bobruisk, Mogilev region, with pyrotrauma to his hand. The hospitalization was reported at 22:20 to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Belarus.
Doctors provided the boy, a 10th grade student, with the necessary assistance and found out that he received injuries as a result of a firecracker explosion – it detonated right in his hand.
In the Mogilev regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Belarus remindedthat the use of firecrackers by minors is fraught with danger, both for the children themselves and for others for several reasons:
- they can lead to serious injuries, both to the child himself and to bystanders, including burns, damage to the hands, face, eyes and hearing (in some cases, even doctors cannot save the victims);
- an uncontrolled explosion of firecrackers can cause a fire (especially when children throw firecrackers near buildings and flammable materials);
About characteristic “seasonal” pyrotraumas recently in an interview with the BelTA agency told Head of the trauma center of the Vitebsk City Clinical Emergency Hospital Vasily Stepanov. According to him, the number of such injuries usually increases in the 20s of December and in the first days of January.
“Injuries to the upper extremities are more common; there may be finger separations, lacerations with tendon damage, and open fractures. There may be facial burns,” Stepanov described the most common cases from his own practice.
In turn, the Ministry of Emergency Situations emphasized that pyrotechnics that did not work pose a particular danger.
“A child, purely instinctively, can come up to find out why the rocket did not fly into the sky. The traditional action is to shake it and look inside,” the rescuers said. Such actions often lead to accidents.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations recalled the rules for using New Year’s pyrotechnics
On the eve of the New Year holidays, the Ministry of Emergency Situations also reminded about the rules for using pyrotechnics:
- Purchase legal fireworks that are sold in official retail outlets with all the necessary documentation, do not buy them second-hand and do not try to make them yourself.
- Use only pyrotechnics indoors that are specifically designed for this purpose (they are marked accordingly by the manufacturer on the packaging). We are talking, first of all, about thin sparklers and small fountains.
- Flying pyrotechnics should only be launched outdoors, in open space and away from residential buildings and buildings.
- Launch rockets vertically upward and under no circumstances point them at people.
- Do not take your pets with you to the fireworks display – no one can predict their reaction to explosions and volleys of pyrotechnics.
“And the most important work, as always, is preventive. Try to choose a time and explain to the children before New Year’s Eve what principles pyrotechnics work on, what damaging factors it has, explain what danger it can pose both to the children themselves and to those around them,” the Ministry of Emergency Situations emphasized.
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