Clinical Profile of a Firework Disaster

Disasters can be natural/man-made. Natural disasters are usually unpredictable and the public and administration will be unprepared. Man-made disasters are usually preventable and may vary from collapse of buildings or bridges, oil or gas leaks, fire explosions, nuclear plant explosions or a terrorist attack. This study is based on the clinical profile of patients admitted following a firework accident that occurred in a temple of Kerala state in India on the 10 th of April 2016, in which around 1500 people were injured and 121 lost their lives. 1039 injured were treated as out-patients and another 410 as in-patients in various hospitals in Kolla and Thiruvananthapuram districts of Kerala.

Author(s): Premlal AP

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