679 people treated in emergency services during Sanfermin 2010

14/07/2010. 61% of these cases were for bruising and cuts, 19% for aggressions and 12% alcoholic ingestion

Both the hospital emergency services and the outpatients emergency services of the Servicio Navarro de Salud - the Navarra Health Service - during the period of the Sanfermines of this year (from 12.00 midday of the 6th of July until 8.00 a.m. on the 14th of July ) treated a total of 679 patients directly related to the fiesta happenings. This figure was down 24% on last year which had a total of 889, according to a statement issued by the press office of The Government of Navarra. Among these figures are those 37 runners who were treated for injuries suffered in the running of the bulls.

Practically two out of every three citizens who went for treatment from the emergency services did so because of having suffered some bruising and small cuts (61% of the total) and, at a much smaller percentage, people who suffered some kind of aggression or other (19%) or were suffering from alcoholic intoxication (12%).The other causes, such as multiple bruising, drug abuse or food poisoning, have been largely anecdotal.

The busiest day for the emergency services was Saturday, the 10th of July with 115 cases directly related to the fiestas. This was the only day that the figure of one hundred cases was surpassed. During the 7th and 8th of July there were 97 cases treated and on the sixth of July, 94 people were treated.

The Navarra Emergency Agency co-ordinated during these Sanfermines 658 deployments of ambulances between the 6th of July at midday and midnight of the 13th of July - a slightly higher figure than last year (622). Thursday the 8th and Saturday the 10th of July were the only two days that more than one hundred patients were carried by ambulance.