KABUL (SW): Officials at Istiqlal hospital said that more than 400 burned patients have been admitted to this hospital from October 2016 to October 2017. According to the hospital officials, more than 50 percent of these patients were women.
Istiqlal hospital is the only treatment center for burns in Kabul. Hospital officials told Salam Watandar that the burning incidents have been more in the winter compared to other seasons of the year.
Doctor Naseeb, head of Istiqlal hospital told Salam Watandar that oil and gas that have been used to heating up the houses have caused fires resulting in the burning of the person due to carelessness.
According to Mr. Naseeb, suicide explosions have also increased the number of burned incidents along with the home heating appliances.
Most of the burned patients who have been admitted to the Istiqlal hospital were burned when using fuel and gas to heating up homes or cook, or as a result of suicide explosions.
Nasrin, one of the patients told Salam Watandar that she was burned as a result of a gas explosion while cooking. According to her, it has been more than 20 days that she has been admitted to the hospital.
Mushtaq, another patient said that his hands and face were burned in a suicide explosion.
Doctor Ahmad Shah Wazir, a general surgeon in Surgery Department at Istiqlal hospital told that the number of patients who have been admitted to the hospital last month was higher in comparison to previous months.
According to Dr. Wazir, only from the suicide explosion incident that occurred at the Tabiyan Cultural Center in the west of Kabul a month ago, 46 burned patients have been transferred to Istiqlal hospital.
In the winter times, due to the increasing demand of fuel and gas, large low-grade fuel and gas cylinders have been imported, which has caused burning due to the carelessness of people and explosion of these gas cylinders due to its low-grade quality.
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