Baguio records 2 firecracker-related injuries

The city recorded two firecracker-related injuries during the New Year revelry breaking its two-year zero case streak in the past two New Year’s eve celebrations.

According to the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit of the Baguio City Health Services Office, the patients are both female, aged 34 and 43.

They sustained injuries in the head and face both caused by “kwitis.”

Both cases were also considered as passive meaning they were not the ones handling the firecracker during the incidents that happened Jan. 1.

They were managed as outpatients at the hospital.

The city, in the last two years, had recorded zero injury from firecrackers as per records of the  CHSO. – Aileen P. Refuerzo