Child drinks gasoline

A child younger than two was taken to the hospital after he drank a small amount of gasoline. Anatol Proca, coordinating doctor at the Chisinau Ambulance Service, has told Info-Prim Neo that the gasoline was close at hand and the boy aged one year and seven months from Truseni village took several sips. The parents called an ambulance and the child was rushed to the Mother and Child Center after undergoing gastric lavage at home. A 53-year-old woman was discovered dead in her apartment on Ismail St. Her husband and son are blind and found her only several hours after she died. Last night, a man aged 25 was stabbed by individuals in Buiucani district. He was admitted to the hospital with a stab wound in the left hemithorax. An unidentified man in his 50s was found on Bernardazzi St in an alcoholic coma and taken to the hospital. Yesterday and last night, the Chisinau ambulance teams dealt with 678 calls, including 59 cases of trauma, 63 cases of acute viral infection, six strokes and four heart attacks.