New Delhi : The ban on sale of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR may not have had the desired impact on air quality, but major hospitals in the national capital have reported less burn injury cases this Diwali than the year before.
Centre-run Safdarjung Hospital and RML Hospital, both of which have big burn units, received 66 and 29 patients respectively.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) did not receive any burn injury cases last night, doctors said.
Centre-run Safdarjung Hospital and RML Hospital received 50 and 29 patients respectively. Safdarjung had received 110 burn patients last Diwali, a senior doctor said.
“At least, 50 patients had come with burn injuries. Five of them were admitted and rest given first aid and released,” Poonam Dhanda, PRO, Safdarjung Hospital.
RML Hospital receives over 100 burn cases during Diwali every year.
“We received just 29 patients of burn, of which one patient is in ICU. This patient suffered 30 per cent burns on his body. Trend is 50 per cent less this year,” informed (Prof ) Dr VK Tiwari, Director, RML Hospital.
While Sir Ganga Ram Hospital received 15 cases of burns, including five children, LNJP Hospital received 10 patients.
