A MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL needed to be set up in a field and a doctor was called when up to a dozen drunk teens were ‘paralytically, unconsciously drunk’ at a teenage disco in Bandon, West Cork.
Medical staff at the scene of the disco called for assistance from Cork University Hospital as a dangerous number of teens turned up to disco in an incoherent state.
Three teenagers were unconscious upon arrival at t event, and were transported to the hospital in Cork city where critical care physician Jason van der Velde said they could have died.
He described the scene when he arrived as a “vomatorium”.
He told RTÉ’s Sean O’Rourke programme this morning that he was not exaggerating when he said that two of the children had the potential to die at scene due to excessively high blood pressure and difficulty breathing.
“We’re not talking about a little bit tipsy, we’re talking about absolutely paralytically, unconsciously drunk,” he said.
Two teenagers were sent by ambulance to CUH where they needed overnight care and treatment.
Some of the unconscious youths had naggins of vodka concealed in their socks, he said, and dismissed the suggestion that drinks may have been spiked.
Van der Velde said Bandon Rugby Club had run the event very well and praised its efforts to assist those trying to help around a dozen or so very drunk teenagers.
“They had done an exceptional job in corralling these really intoxicated teenagers straight off the bus into a safe area in the clubhouse which they warmed up and ensured these kids were safe.”
