"Chemical attacks are happening
'almost weekly'
in Newcastle,
sources at the city's biggest hospital have told LBC after warning of an increase in patients being treated for burns to the face.
Concerned doctors at
Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary
have now told LBC they are treating
'multiple patients a month, if not per week',
who have suffered injuries to their eyes from what is believed to be caustic alkali.
One source said:
'Down in London alkaline attacks aren’t common,
but in Newcastle alkaline attacks to the face like that are getting really, really common'.
'We’re getting multiple, multiple of them a month,
if not per week.
There were two on the ward just before Christmas on the same day.
They were separate.
One had a machete wound to the neck too.
The consultants here who specialise in the retina,
so look after things with these attacks,
have been saying how common it's getting.
Consultants say it’s happening almost weekly.
It’s definitely multiple a month now'."
Chemical attacks are happening 'almost weekly' in Newcastle, sources at the city's biggest hospital have told LBC after warning of an increase in patients being treated for burns to the face.
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