The end of the day was very agitated in the hospital. Nurses were assaulted Monday afternoon in the gastroenterology department of the Hospital Group of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) by the woman of a patient, who launched knives.
The violent incident required police intervention, tells us about a South-Health Social 76-27 official. If the nurses have not been injured, they suffer from “psychological injuries”, denounces the union.
Around 5.30 p.m. Monday, an argument broke out between members of a patient’s family. The nurse demands calm for the first time, recalling that the protagonists are in a service dedicated to the care of the patients.
“10 to 15 knives” thrown away
It is with exchanges of blows between them that visitors continue. The caregiver intervenes again but firmer. The patient’s wife then seizes a handful of knives that she finds nearby in a break room, or on a tray in the corridor, and launches them towards the nurse. “10 to 15 knives,” will be thrown, says Sud-santé.
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Panic seizes the service where “at least two nurses and two nursing assistants” are in office that day. A caregiver is forced to “put up” the patients and then locks himself in a room. To the point that the police intervene, “army of shields”.
The attacker is then handcuffed and on board. According to the caregiver union, the staff are “traumatized” and suffer from “psychological trauma. A colleague was “dead from Trouille”, adds the union representative who calls for the management of the Hospital Group of Le Havre to react.