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| DOH asks to avoid firecrackers. 'Torotot' is one alternative. |
Year in and year out, the Department of Health (DOH) has been advocating for a ban in the selling and use of firecrackers/fireworks for the Yuletide and New Year revelry but still each year, people, both young and old, are victims of firework-related injuries and even death.
With the Christmas season just around the corner, DOH-Cordillera Health Emergency Service staff Elnoria Bugnosen, in a kapihan media forum, once again reiterated the Department’s ‘Iwas-Paputok’ campaign. She called on the support of different local chief executives (LCEs) in the region through local directives, policies, or ordinances, to put more teeth into the campaign.
According to Bugnosen, the campaign is primarily for the health and safety of the people.
Bugnosen reported that cases of fireworks-related cases remain high in Cordillera. In 2009, 85 cases were recorded including 23 cases and one death case here in Baguio City. Despite a more intensified campaign in 2010, an increase in cases was still recorded with 96 cases region wide, including 25 cases in Baguio City.
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Started in 1994 by then Health Secretary Juan Flavier, the Oplan Iwas Paputok, monitored from December 21 to January 4 of every year, aims to minimize the morbidity and mortality from fireworks/firecracker and stray bullet injuries.
Locally, Mayor Mauricio Domogan already stressed his support for the banning the selling of firecrackers in Baguio; he also seeks the support of the City Council for the creation of an ordinance that would mandate the ban and the provision of penalties for those who will violate such ordinance.
At present, there is an existing city ordinance just for a regulated sale of legal fireworks and firecrackers in the city. - (PIA / by Lito Dar)
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