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The celebration of the night of the candles, which is one of the dates that opens the Christmas season and unfortunately a day that traditionally leaves a significant number of people injured by gunpowder, So far, it has left 47 victims of this scourge, according to a preliminary balance of the National Institute of Health (INS).
According to the INS, seven of the injured showed up last night and 40 in the early hours of Tuesday. 21 of the total are minors.
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The data notified with a cut-off at 4 in the afternoon of this holiday Tuesday represents a decrease of 29.5 percent with respect to those reported in 2019, when for these same dates a total of 159 injured were confirmed on days 7 and 8 of December.
However, the INS is clear that the figure should be updated as the territorial entities make their notifications, so these numbers “are worrying, since they are all avoidable injuries and should not occur.”
In the historical report of this celebration, INS surveillance data show that in the last seven years some 961 Colombians were injured with gunpowder on those dates.
For the director of the INS, Martha Lucía Ospina, when averaging the numbers of gunpowder injuries in the last 10 years of gunpowder surveillance, the numbers are overwhelming. “In the last ten years we have seen two constant figures every year: 500 adults and 300 children or adolescents burned by gunpowder.”
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“These data also show us that the dawn celebrations in Antioquia, on December 8, 25 and January 1, are the dates that leave the most victims of gunpowder. So local leaders have detailed information to make the pertinent and timely decisions, “he added.
So far this year, there are 92 reported injuries and of these 36 are under
age. The departments with the highest number of gunpowder injuries are
Antioquia with 14 cases, Valle (12) and Bogotá (10).
In addition, 52 percent of those affected were manipulating gunpowder and the artifacts that caused the most damage were the totes or devils and voladores. The most frequent injuries are burns, in 88 percent of cases, and lacerations, in 67 percent.
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