Bengaluru: a sharp decline has been seen in eye injuries caused by Burst Firecracker in Bengaluru Deepaavli.
Only a handful of cases reported at the Kota Mata Hospital.
A nine-year-old boy from Basavanagudi was taken to the Minto Ophthalmic Institute on Thursday morning with an eye injury and a face burn and swelling of eyelids.
It was treated as a simple injury and was not needed inpatient.
It was a second eye injury case related to crackers seen in hospitals in the last four days.
On Thursday, a six-year-old boy from Doddathalasandra on the outskirts of Bengaluru was taken to Minto Hospital with a cracker injury in his left eye.
“He was an observer who was beaten by a flower pot.
The boy was treated and sent home,” Minto’s authority said.
On Monday, a 10-year-old boy from Padarayanapura was treated as an outpatient.
By 2020, hospitals have treated 16 children and a total of 31 cases of eye injuries caused by cracker accidents.
Three patients lost a vision in one eye, including a two-year-old boy.
Compared to previous years, the number of fewer eye injuries crackers, say doctors.
At Agarwal’s eye hospital, Banashankari, a 13-year-old boy was treated for a left eye injury caused by a cracker.
The boy, Chikkalasandra, drove a pilot in a two-wheeled vehicle when the accident occurred.
The boy does not need to enter, the hospital authority said.
There were no eye injuries because Cracker Burst was reported in a private hospital such as Sykar Eye Hospital at JP Nagar and Narayana Netrallaya on Thursday, at 8pm.
In Naranaya Netrallaya, two pediatric cases and one adult were injured with Cracker Burst treated in the outpatient unit on Wednesday.
“No one who has a threatening injury,” said the hospital authority.
Dr.
Rajasshekar YL, who heads Shekar’s eye hospital, said that in the last 4-5 years, there was a steady decline in the number of eye injuries related to crackers.
“This is mainly due to increased awareness between public communication and effectively through the media,” he said.