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3 burned in Cesar
Despite the campaigns against gunpowder and the decrees that restricted its use, in the Cesar department there were three burns due to the manipulation of these explosives, according to the official report of the departmental Health Secretariat.
The Christmas Eve celebration left a 41-year-old man with injuries to the fingers of his right hand from lighting a flyer that ended up exploding near his body. The case was presented in the municipality of González, in the south of the department.
In the same southern area of Cesar, another event was recorded, this time involving a woman affected by gunpowder, in the municipality of Aguachica. The official report of the health authorities indicates that the 19-year-old teenager suffered a “right eye burn, grade 3”.
The testimony of the injured woman states that “she was at home and while she was watching the gunpowder burn, traces of the element fell into her eyes.”
The third of those affected, the one with the greatest severity, is a 31-year-old man, who in the municipality of Pueblo Bello, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in the north of Cesar, was manipulating a rocket when it exploded in his left hand.
When he was transferred to a health center, the doctors determined that it was necessary to amputate two fingers.
So far in December, in Cesar there have been 10 burned with gunpowder, with ages of 2, 7, 12, 14, 17, 19, 30, 31, 33 and 41 years, respectively, in the municipalities of San Alberto, El Copey, Aguachica, Curumaní, La Paz, González, Pueblo Bello and Valledupar.
in Sucre
According to the official report delivered by the Government of Sucre, this department did not record burns with gunpowder during the celebration of Christmas Eve.
In none of the 26 municipalities had cases of this nature been reported, at least between December 24 and 10:00 a.m. on the 25th, while for Velitas Day there were three cases, one of them a child. 8 years.
On the other hand, the Police intervened more than 100 parties and attended more than 50 fights, 39 of them in Sincelejo, and these left several wounded with a knife, mostly machetes, who are admitted to clinics in this city receiving medical attention.
Report in Magdalena
The manipulation of gunpowder on Christmas night at the Magdalena left three people injured, including two minors. The authorities indicated that in Santa Marta there were no burns, but there were several injured in fights due to the mixture of alcohol and intolerance.
The cases of children injured with gunpowder occurred in the municipalities of Santa Ana and Plato, while a drunken adult ended up injured in the municipality of Zona Bananera.
EL HERALDO learned that the children involved ended up with first degree burns and did not present complications in their health.
The departmental Health Secretariat called on Magdalena’s parents to take action in the face of these events so that there are no more explosive incidents in the remainder of 2020.
On the other hand, the district health secretary, Henrique Toscano Salas, pointed out that in Santa Marta on Christmas night there were no incidents with gunpowder.
“There were no burns in Santa Marta, so we invited the community to continue behaving in this way that is so beneficial for the health of the Samarians,” Toscano said.
The Metropolitan Police of Santa Marta attended more than a dozen fights in the capital of Magdalena, presented by the mixture of alcohol and intolerance.
Two people wounded with a knife were admitted to the Gaira health post on the morning of December 25.
Guajira
Throughout the department of La Guajira there were celebrations and gunpowder burned to receive Christmas, but fortunately there is not a single report of people burned or affected in any way by the use of this element.
Compared to the Fiesta de Velitas, at Christmas the commercialization and use of the dangerous substance decreased and the result, according to data from each of the municipalities, is zero burns.
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