Focus: Security

Video reveals level of violence in Australian hospitals

Footage shows patients spitting, punching and attacking medical staff with a chair


Video footage has been released by Australia's  Royal Melbourne Hospital as part of a new campaign about aggression in the Emergency Department, according to an article on the Daily Mail website.

Nearly 7,500 violent incidents towards staff were reported in 2017 — with patients spitting, punching and hurling chairs at staff in the emergency room.

This is a reported 85 percent increase on the number of incidents just four years ago at the hospital's City Campus site.

Out of all the incidents taking place or about to take place in the ED, there were nine which included a weapon.

Read the article.

 



March 5, 2018


Topic Area: Security


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