By 121 News
Chandigarh 21st October:- A total of 3 patients with fire cracker related injury presented to the emergency services of Advanced Eye Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh. 16 patients were from the tricity area, while 21 were from the neighboring states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. There were 29 males and 8 females. 19 patients were <16 years of age and 5 were >40 years of age. The youngest patient presenting with ocular injury due to fire cracker was 7 years old. 11 patients were actually lighting the crackers when they got injured and 26 were bystanders. A total of 13 patients required surgical intervention to salvage the eye, 10 of which have undergone surgery at the time of preparation of this report.
Majority of those who required surgical intervention had severe injury with light perception or worse visual acuity and were from outside the tricity area.
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