the Number of eye injuries that have been treated in the eye of the country’s hospitals new year’s eve, is a bit lower than last year.
a total Of 22 persons has been seriously hurt after a close encounter with fireworks of a different kind, they have had to a trip to the hospital.
this was stated by The chief physician Jørgen Villumsen from the eye clinic at copenhagen university hospital in Glostrup. Last year, there were registered 28 eligible and eye damage.
– But it is sad to note that the number of injuries in children is unchanged. There are seven eye injuries in children, of which there is very serious damage to the eye with four children. Two of them are under ten years of age.
– When I talk about serious damage to the eye in the here, the context, so it is therefore in a degree where one runs the risk of losing sight completely or partly, says Jørgen Villumsen.
Common to all the injured children and adults is that none of them wore safety goggles.
