Trauma numbers on the increase with 38 gunshot wounds over a weekend and 351 stabbings

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Just weeks after lockdown restrictions were adjusted to level one, the Western Cape Health Department is already seeing an increase in the number of trauma cases.

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JUST weeks after lockdown restrictions were adjusted to level one, the Western Cape Health Department is already seeing an increase in the number of trauma cases.

The department confirmed that in just over a weekend, their staff had seen 1 258 trauma cases. A total of 38 of these were gunshot wounds, 351 were the result of stabbings, 281 were blunt assault cases and 139 due to motor vehicle accidents.

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AvuyileRebe Voetsek

Government tactics pre-conditioning us to go back to level 3 after elections.

no no shut up

Buzovalwa

No covid admissions?🧐

I smell alcohol ban after elections

lira12_joy Anisiyeke nge trauma Nad post about the Tembisa10

They didn’t report any trauma cases that happened as a result of lockdown

What has prompted this story to be reported… we’ve never seen it in the past decade so this is their way of warning the nation of another lockdown and alcohol ban

Level 4 lockdown after elections🤕🤕😏😏😏

Azba ani xoki nha…

Alcohol will be banned after elections.

They just want to ban alcohol soon as elections are over

It's going to get worse as we head to the festive season

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