New Delhi: This Diwali, hospitals across the city had fewer people coming in with burn injuries to their emergency department as compared to previous years. And, the people who came in had less severe burns.<\/p>\n
In fact, the five nodal government hospitals designated to treat burn patients saw a 75% decline in the number of people who came into their emergency department on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
The five hospitals \u2014 Lok Nayak, Guru Teg Bahadur, Safdarjung, Ram Manohar Lohia and Deen Dayal Upadhaya \u2014 reported 179 burns cases last night as compared to a total of 704 cases these hospitals had received previous year during Diwali.<\/p>\n
Safdarjung hospital, which has one of the best burns unit among the government hospitals, received a total of 55 patients with Diwali-related burn injuries, with most not requiring admission. \u201cOnly five patients had burns severe enough that we had to admit them,\u201d said the hospital spokesperson. In 2016, the hospital had seen 300 cases of burn injury on the night of Diwali.<\/p>\n
Lok Nayak hospital received 10 cases as compared to 71 in 2016. \u201cOf the 10 patients, we had to admit only four, who had suffered more than 10% burns. Even then, the burns were concentrated on the limbs. In fact, this year in all the nodal government hospitals, the number of admissions were less,\u201d said Dr JC Passey, medical director of Lok Nayak hospital, which is responsible for issuing public awareness messages on Dos and Donts\u2019 for burn injuries every Diwali.<\/p>\n
Guru Teg Bahadur hospital (which caters to the entire trans-Yamuna region) had 40 cases of burns injury as compared to 175 the year before. At Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital, 45 patients came in with burns injury as compared to 60 last year. Dr Ram Manohar Lohia hospital received 29 patients with burns injury as compared to 98 the year before.<\/p>\n
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) received no burn injury case on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, there has been a sharp decline in the number of patients coming in with burn injuries, the number of admission are also fewer indicating that the burns were less severe. This can only be attributed to the ban on sale of crackers,\u201d said Dr VK Tiwari, medical superintendent of RML hospital. He worked in the burns and plastics department of Safdarjung hospital till recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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