Electronic accounts promote banned games … and delivery to homes

With the approaching Eid, fireworks promotion or what is called “Shalal” through e -marketing sites, social media platforms, and street vendors are active, where children and adolescents accept them, without realizing the risks and serious damage that can cause them to their safety, and include eye injuries and burns with skin and face.

The Public Prosecution in the country warned of the great danger that threatens the safety of children due to fireworks, and the major physical damage it could cause.

In detail, the phenomenon of the use of fireworks and crackers represents a negative behavior practiced by children and adolescents during happy occasions, celebrations and holidays, to express their joy and joy despite the repeated health and social warnings of their seriousness in light of the insistence of sellers to promote them, ignoring their prohibition legally, while official statistics indicated that half of the fireworks injuries occurred between the category Age is under 17 years old.

And the Emirates Today, finally, monitored electronic sales outlets that display different types of fireworks at prices ranging between five dirhams and 80 dirhams, according to the type and the quantity, in addition to the accounts on social media promoting and selling them while providing delivery to homes.

Two doctors specializing in emergency medicine, Aya Abdel Nasser and Ahmed Shousha, warned that fireworks carry grave dangers, “The moments of joy may turn into tragedies due to the unsafe use of them, which leads to serious injuries, fires and environmental damage,” noting that they cause children with various injuries that range from minor and severe.

Dr. Aya Abdel Nasser indicated that the injuries may reach the loss of the child’s sight, as a result of burns in the eyelid and the conjunctiva, the tear of the eye ball, the occurrence of wounds in the cornea, the entry of strange bodies in the eye, the occurrence of a bloody gathering in the front room of the eye, and the explosion of the eyeball, as it may occur subsequent complications such as the head of the cornea, the separation of the retina, the loss of sight, and the loss of the eye completely, tightly on the importance of educating children And their monitoring, and not buying these games for them.

The family counselor, Professor of Islamic Culture, Dr. Saif Rashid Al -Jabri, stressed that “the trade of fireworks selling is active during the month of Ramadan, and is witnessing a greater expansion with the approaching of the feast, whether through the Internet or some of the violating people, despite the harm and intimidation of people with their annoying voices and fire that comes from, and may result in injuries and fires if they explode in those who play with it or those around him, or if they fall on something For combustion, so be careful to harm a person for himself, and she hurt her with her fire on the player and others is very realized, and many accidents were caused by these fiery crackers.

He stressed the importance of organizing awareness campaigns in which the media, schools, universities and relevant authorities participate to educate members of society, especially with regard to protecting children and adolescents from the dangers of fireworks, to reduce the spread of these negative practices, and to provide advice and guidance to parents to prevent them from drifting behind the desires of their children.

The Public Prosecution of the State, on its official account in the platform (X), presented a story for a father who agreed to his son’s request to give him money to buy fireworks to celebrate with his friends on the blessed Eid Al -Fitr, asking him to be very cautious when igniting it, noting that the next day the child went out with a group of friends to celebrate in the neighborhood and tried to ignite fireworks, but the winds were strong, so they went to the games more The fiery is to block the air from it, and when it caught the child and a number of his friends, they were seriously burned, and they were taken to the hospital.

She stressed that “fireworks are a great danger that threatens the safety of children and may cause them great physical damage, and the important role in raising awareness of their seriousness falls on the parents to prevent their children from playing with them, whatever their age.”

For his part, Legal Adviser, Mustafa Sharif, stressed the importance of the community’s awareness that «fireworks, or what is called locally (Al Shalaq) is not a danger to their users only, but their danger extends to those in the vicinity The environment resulting from the smell of combustion, and its storage in homes threatens the outbreak of fires.

He pointed out that the legislator stipulated in the first article of the decree of a federal law, regarding weapons, ammunition, explosives, military equipment and dangerous materials, that “explosives are a chemical compound or a mixture of different chemical compounds, which interact with each other when they are exposed to prepared factors, as a stimulant force to produce pressure and heat, which leads to damage to the surrounding area.”

He said: “The third article of the law stipulates that it is not permissible to acquire, possess, score, carry the explosives, or import, export, re -export, cross, or ship it, or trafficking, making, repairing, transferring, or disposing of it in any form, except after obtaining a license or a permit to do so from the license authority or from the relevant authority”, indicating that Article 54 stipulated a period of imprisonment A year and a fine of no less than 100 thousand dirhams, or one of these two penalties, for everyone who is a merchant without a license in fireworks, imports, exporting them, manufacturing or entering the state and to it.

It is worth noting that Dubai Police warned on its official account on the platform (X) that fireworks trafficking are against the law, and may lead to penalties that include imprisonment for a period of no less than one year and a fine of no less than 100 thousand dirhams.

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Risk

The emergency medicine specialist, Dr. Ahmed Shousha, stressed that fireworks cause many injuries, especially between children and adolescents who deal with them without realizing their dangers.

The most prominent injuries include serious burns, as hot sparks lead to second and third degree burns, and they may leave permanent effects on the skin, in addition to eye injuries, where fireworks can cause partial or complete vision loss, and the high sounds resulting from explosions may lead to damage to the inner ear, which causes permanent or temporary loss of hearing, as well as respiratory problems as a result of smoke as a result of smoke Emoted from fireworks, as it contains harmful chemicals that may lead to respiratory infections, especially in asthma patients.

• The Public Prosecution: The important role in raising awareness of the danger of fireworks falls on the parents to prevent their children from playing with them, whatever their age.

• 50 %of the country’s fireworks injuries occurred between the age group under 17 years old.

• 100 thousand dirhams fine of fireworks trafficking.