Unhappy 13th Birthday

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A young girl had to be rushed to hospital after drinking herself into a coma at her own 13th birthday party.

Melina H.* had been celebrating her birthday with friends on Saturday night, but ended up drinking beer and vodka until she passed out.

Passers-by who saw the paralytic youngster called paramedics, who took her away in an ambulance.

Melina met her friends in a subway station in Hamburg. They pooled their money together and asked an irresponsible stranger to buy them alcohol.

The party got underway as the kids passed around vodka and beer.

But the birthday girl drank too much and passed out.

Her so-called friends - aged between 13 and 16 - didn’t even seem to notice when she fell from the park bench in a drunken stupor and calmly carried on drinking!

At about 11pm, shocked witnesses called an ambulance. The girl was in a coma and was rushed to a children's hospital.

Police dissolved the drinking party and called Melina’s mother. The girl is recovering in hospital, and officials have alerted the local youth welfare department.

The binge drinking problem is a growing one in Germany. One youngster in five gets drunk once a month, according to a drug and addiction report from the government.

More often than not, girls are involved - almost 60 per cent of young alcoholics are female, according to experts.

Dr. Michael Ehnert, head of the emergency room in the Asklepios Clinic at the Hamburg St. Georg hospital, told BILD: “Cases have risen by 150 per cent in the last eight years. All aspects of society are involved.”