{"id":359884,"date":"2018-05-05T21:55:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T20:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lead-surgeon-says-hospital-like-afghan-war-zone-two-more-killed-overnight\/"},"modified":"2018-05-05T21:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T20:55:30","slug":"lead-surgeon-says-hospital-like-afghan-war-zone-two-more-killed-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lead-surgeon-says-hospital-like-afghan-war-zone-two-more-killed-overnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Surgeon Says Hospital Like Afghan War Zone, Two More Killed Overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Hospitals in Mayor Sadiq Khan\u2019s London resemble those in a war zone, a senior surgeon working to save victims of the capital\u2019s surging violent\u00a0crime wave\u00a0has said.<\/p>\n<p>The shock comments made Thursday morning come after two more men were killed overnight, a couple of days after another night of violence saw a boy, 16, stabbed to death and a 17-year-old girl shot in a \u201cdrive by\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night\u2019s killings, both in Hackney, East London, brought the death toll from suspected murder in the capital to 50 so far this year, pulling away from New York City, which London\u00a0overtook\u00a0at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mark Griffiths, the lead surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust in East London, said that knife and gun wounds had moved from a \u201cniche\u201d part of his job to a daily chunk of his workload, and a growing number of victims were \u201cchildren\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of my military colleagues have described their practice here as similar to being at [Camp] Bastion,\u201d Dr Griffiths\u00a0told\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Today<\/em>\u00a0programme on BBC Radio 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to look after people in their twenties. Now people are often in their mid to late teens and children in school uniforms are being admitted under our care with knife and gun wounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWhereas a young boy being stabbed five or six years ago would have been a horror story, now it\u2019s normal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople expect to see people being killed on a daily basis. Members of the public who are not involved in gangs or violence let this pass without comment and you&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/khans-london-lead-surgeon-says-hospital-like-afghan-war-zone-two-more-killed-overnight\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals in Mayor Sadiq Khan\u2019s London resemble those in a war zone, a senior surgeon working to save victims of the capital\u2019s surging violent\u00a0crime wave\u00a0has said. The shock comments made Thursday morning come after two more men were killed overnight, a couple of days after another night of violence saw a boy, 16, stabbed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}