WEDGE cab: Overdoubled the introduction of children into hospitals after excessive alcohol consumption

Incredible is the new element that the Panhellenic Federation of Workers in Public Hospitals ( ) gives publicity about the abuse by teenagers in Greece. THE WHOLE is ringing the alarm of danger, as the evidence that comes to light is very worrying about the abuse of alcohol by minors. The two new cases of teenagers who had to be hospitalized at Kalamata Hospital and Thessaloniki Hippokratio after excessive intoxication. CORVERSE According to the president of the Workers’ Federation, Michael Giannako, these incidents are far from isolated: “In recent months there has been more than a doubling of the cases of children attending hospitals after drunkenness. The number of minors is constantly increasing. They come either after drunkenness, excessive use, or adulterated drinks in the emergency room of on-call pediatric hospitals and clinical general hospitals. The operating framework of shops serving alcohol to minors should be tightened and at the same time families should be more careful with their children. CORVERSE Because children’s drunkenness doesn’t always happen in entertainment centers. Children often gather in squares in large places and use alcohol,” he specifically says. WIDE: “Why this tolerance? Keep the alcohol ban in adolescents’ Even a glass of drink to minors is dangerous, especially if the drink is adulterated. There will have to be strict controls on these alcohol stores, but also explicitly ban the sale of alcoholic beverages to minors, the President of the WTOIDEN supports and adds that measures must be extended everywhere. “These children are usually treated preventively for a day or two and go home. However, it was necessary for children who came with severe symptoms of alcohol use to be treated even in ICU. There should be strict checks at last in the shops. Why this tolerance? There should be an explicit ban on drinking alcoholic drinks to minors. Show ID at the entrance so their age is known. If there isn’t a lock in shops serving drinks to minors, there will be no solution. Hospital staff in such cases alerts and very well does the police. It should also be banned in supermarkets and other shops selling to minors alcoholic drinks,” concludes Michael Giannakos. Source: Iatropedia.gr