South Africa: Gang Wars Part 5 | Groote Schuur Treats Up to 90 Gunshot Victims a Month - 'And We're Only Seeing the Survivors'

The bullet-riddled victims, who end up on the operating table of his team at Groote Schuur Hospital, are casualties of a bloody civil war playing out on the Cape Flats, seasoned trauma surgeon Professor Andrew Nicol believes.

Up to 90 victims are treated per month at the government-funded institution in Observatory for gun-related injuries, an average of about three a day.

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