Doctors at Highland Hospital – the region's premier trauma and gunshot medical facility – are currently treating three of the six victims injured during Oakland's school campus shooting, and are alarmed at the astronomical rise in gunshot wounds they have seen in the last five years.
Eden Medical Center treated the other three victims.
Jackson noted that gun violence is a health inequity that disproportionately impacts low-income communities of color in Alameda County. The same areas that have the most gunshot-related emergency department visits also have the highest rates of stroke, diabetes and heart disease.
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