Saturday, October 3, 2009

Festive season's mishaps

This year we did not get any serious 'fireworks' accident or 'sugar-cane machine' crush injury like we used. Perhaps increased public awareness kept these occupational and home injuries at it's minimum. Unfortunately Road Traffic Accidents are on the rise and we've had at least two major accidents just during the fasting month, where in one of them a husband lost a wife and his 4 children ended up with multiple fractures of long bones.

The public has been warned about Safety whilst driving incessantly, No talking on the phones, No texting, No cutting corners, No drinking alcohol, Keep to your speedlimit, Safety belt.. but still these accidents do occur. The sad things are, the culprits escape with moderate injuries, the innocent law abiding road users lose their precious ones.. how many times have I seen this is .... one to many.

Anyway please guys... becareful on the road.

This time we feature some interesting mishaps that occured around the festive season. Perhaps some lessons could be learnt from them...




You may have heard recently on the news about a young child who was the victim of a kite string accident. The above picture is the neck of the child which got caught in kite string. Unfortunately the string was directly at the child's path as the child was cycling through a residential area. It was so sharp after being treated with broken glass (a common practise amongst kite enthusiasts) that it severed the Sternocleidomastoid and Superficial veins. Luckily it missed the arteries otherwise it would have been a different ending. The surgeons repaired the injury and the child now has been discharge home.

Moral of the story: Don't treat you kite strings with smashed broken glass, you never know what or who it might injure....


This was an elderly lady presented to Accident & Emergency department with a gangrenous finger. The story, it was bitten by a cray-fish a month ago and was treated by a private GP with oral antibiotics. A month later the swelling persist and the RINGS in her finger is still there!! Ofcourse the blood supply to that digit is completely obliterated by then and the finger developed dry gangrene.

It still baffling how this was kept at home for 1 month until it came to this stage. It took a double action ring cutter to remove the rings, but eventually the digit was amputated anyway.


Moral of the story: Remember to Remove your rings at your fingers if its stung or injured!

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