Trauma surgeon raises the alarm to number of stab incidents among children: ‘Victims are sometimes under 10’

Every day they come to his operating table in the Erasmus Medical Center: victims of stabbing and shootings. Trauma surgeon Michiel Verhofstad is worried. Not only are there more and more, but also younger victims – sometimes even children less than 10 years. “It’s terrible, sometimes I wonder how we can turn the tide.”

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