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Security guards slashed by patient

Healthcare Security Weekly, February 19, 2007

Two security guards at a hospital in Great Britain were slashed by a patient who attacked them with razor-sharp scalpels, reported The News.

The patient attacked the two guards on a hospital ward after he stole the scalpels from an unlocked cupboard at Queen Alexander Hospital in Cosham. The attack left one guard needing surgery, the newspaper reported.

The attack began when a 41-year-old man burst into a woman patient's room in the early morning hours February 12, brandishing two scalpels he took from an unlocked treatment room, the newspaper said. Two security guards came to the woman's aid. In the scuffle, one guard was stabbed in the shoulder, and the other was slashed in the arm and needed surgery to stitch up the wound. Hospital leaders said an internal probe was launched into the circumstances of the attack.

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