Ophthalmologist: Stop Consumer Fireworks – Parool.nl

Ophthalmologist: Stop Consumer Fireworks – Parool.nl

02-01-15 22:39 pm – Source: Reuters

Tjeerd de Faber. © anp

There should be a ban on consumer fireworks. That said ophthalmologist Tjeerd Faber of the Eye Hospital in Rotterdam. He made the call tonight Nieuwsuur behalf Dutch Ophthalmic Society. In addition, all ophthalmologists are connected

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We pay with our small country every year is too high a price in the form of severed hands and blind eyes.

Ophthalmologist Tjeerd Faber

wee boys playing with fireworks cobra street. © anp

“We pay with our small country each year too high price in the form of severed hands and blind eyes. It can not be the intention of a party, “said Faber. He called on politicians in The Hague to take its responsibility.

During the night of the old and the new in the Eye Hospital in Rotterdam seven people brought in whose one eye is severely damaged by fireworks. The victims have permanently impaired vision or eye is completely blind. In some cases, doctors may need to remove an eye. No victim had a firework glasses

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The Faber says that the small minority who stands out the fireworks rest of the revelers on the street holding hostage. According to Leo Groenveld, president of the fireworks industry, above all the illegal fireworks problems. Faber is disagreed

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