WC hospitals see significant spike in trauma cases after booze sales ban lifted : vimarsana.com

WC hospitals see significant spike in trauma cases after booze sales ban lifted


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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