We thought our previous post on “Basic Tips for New Years Eve Party Planning” will be the last for this year 2009, but we still have one more to go before the year ends, and this is just a reminder for all of us who are planning to celebrate the New Year with a Bang! Just a reminder – Don’t Use Firecrackers this New Year Please!
The Department of Health (DOH) strongly advised parents not to allow children to use firecrackers or fireworks whether of the legal or illegal kind.
A nationwide call is to stop using firecrackers this time around during New Year’s Eve. When the clock strikes twelve, the emergency rooms of hospitals gets fully packed from the numerous cases of firecracker injuries, which have been reported of having its lowest count last 4 years of holiday seasons in the Philippines.
To this, our health authorities greatly caution the public to finally end using firecrackers and fireworks. It will be worth it. Celebrating New Year will be brighter than ever if these serious injuries are finally put to a halt.
If you don’t know, there are actually no safe firecrackers and fireworks ever made, which is attested by the Department of Health (DoH). Examples of harmful ones are the sky rockets or kwitis and sparklers or luces, which are the top favorite firecrackers of your kids. Indeed it endows beautiful bright sparks, but its benefit ends there.
Hospital records have confirmed that the said 2 types of firecrackers belong to the top five firecrackers in the country that lead to a big number of related injuries last year’s holiday celebration.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said, “The seemingly harmless luces can burn up to 1,093 degrees Celsius or 10 times the boiling point of water.”
Let’s join hands today to have a safe and sound New Year this 2010!
I’m so glad my dad decided to not light up firecrackers this new year. He just played music really loud to make up for it. After our “celebration” (lots of drinking, no dinner or Media Noche waah!), my ears were hurting with all the 70s and 80s songs he played out loud. Hehehe. But, that was better than to worry about him hurting himself with firecrackers.
Happy New Year!
Hi. People never learn. I heard that the firecracker related injuries got up by 26%. Next year, I am sure there will be more. The best thing to do is for the government to totally ban firecracker manufacture and send the manufacturers who will be caught to prison. But……I really really doubt if they can do that.
uu nga. bat ang tigas ng mga ulo ng mga tao. hay
Firecrackers are banned in Davao City. We just celebrated Christmas and New Year with a videoke marathon.