Sixty people hospitalized after falls on icy roads
N1 Info 19.12.2018 | Beta
More than 60 people have been hospitalized with injuries sustained from falls on frozen streets in Serbia’s southern city of Nis, the Beta news agency reported on Wednesday.
Sources at the Orthopaedic Clinic in Nis said that most of the injuries were broken bones. “These are patients with broken wrists, shin and thigh bones and fractured hips,” the sources said adding that most of the patients were elderly. About 20 of the people injured in falls on icy roads had to undergo surgery.