Drunken Teens End Up in Hospital After Birthday in Bulgaria

Politics | February 7, 2007, Wednesday // 00:00

Eight-graders from the language high-school in Bulgaria's southern city of Sliven ended up in a hospital after getting plastered celebrating a classmate's birthday.

The teenagers started drinking in the morning in a bar near school and were soon so drunk that some could hardly walk. They gulped down large quantities of vodka beer and tequila and then headed down the city's central boulevard, some walking, others staggering.

A girl collapsed on the street and passers-by called an ambulance. She was taken to the hospital where doctors had to pump her stomach. Another three teens were later taken to the emergency ward too, suffering alcohol poisoning. Doctors believe each of them consumed about 300-400 grams of hard liquor and the fact that they didn't have breakfast made matters even worse.

Daniela Paunova, the doctor on duty, told Darik News that the hospital often treated kids for alcohol poisoning, but she never had a case when they had to take in four at once.

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