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WC hospitals see significant spike in trauma cases after booze sales ban lifted Provincial Head of Health, Dr Keith Cloete, said that despite a drop in the number of COVID-19 cases being recorded, there was still significant pressure on the health system. FILE: A doctor sutures a man's nose and face after he was admitted to the Khayelitsha District Hospital's trauma unit. Picture: EWN
CAPE TOWN - There's been a huge spike in trauma cases presenting at Western Cape hospitals.
A week before advanced level 3 lockdown rules were relaxed, officials recorded an average of 41 trauma cases per day.
This shot up to about 77 daily cases for the week after a ban on the sale of liquor was lifted.
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