{"id":37577,"date":"2015-01-07T17:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T09:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=37577"},"modified":"2015-01-07T17:28:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T09:28:18","slug":"doh-to-push-for-total-ban-on-firecrackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/07\/doh-to-push-for-total-ban-on-firecrackers\/","title":{"rendered":"DOH to push for total ban on firecrackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35593\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_99359045.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35593\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_99359045.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_99359045.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_99359045-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_99359045-900x596.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Department of Health (DOH) is poised to push for a comprehensive ban on firecrackers and a partial ban on fireworks. This was disclosed by acting Health Secretary Janette Garin at a recently held press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Garin said that the decision comes on the heels of reports that nearly 860 people were injured by firecrackers during the celebration of the New Year\u2019s Eve. She added that the consensus to push for a ban was reached in a string of meetings between the DOH and officials of the Philippine National Police, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) and Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will recommend a total ban on firecrackers all over the country and partial ban on fireworks. The fireworks display will have to be handled only by pyrotechnicians in a public area,\u201d Garin said.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that those involved in the firecracker industry should focus on fireworks, instead, in order to keep their livelihood afloat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo as not to displace the industry, we also encourage the local government units to support public fireworks display together with the private sector,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the DOH monitoring of 50 hospitals, from December 21, 2014 to January 5, there were a total of 840 firecracker-related injuries and seven cases of fireworks ingestion.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-one of the 840 cases led to limb amputation, while 146 were injuries to the eye.<br \/>\nThere were also thirteen cases of injuries caused by stray bullets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health (DOH) is poised to push for a comprehensive ban on firecrackers and a partial ban on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}