Man allegedly slashes hospital diabetes patient
Hospital Safety Connection, December 9, 2004
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A man dragged a diabetes patient into a restroom at Metropolitan Hospital in New York last week and stabbed her in the face and stomach, the New York Daily News reported.
Oscar Rios, 30, went into the hospital's outpatient clinic where his sister-in-law received diabetes treatment. Rios fled the hospital after the attack, but was later arrested.
An order of protection from Rios expired just a few weeks before the attack, the Daily News reported.
Rios entered the hospital by flashing a driver's license to security and claimed that he had lost his outpatient clinic identification card, investigators said.
"Because he had a valid ID, he was admitted," Kate McGrath, spokeswoman for the city Health and Hospitals Corp., told the Daily News. "We are now examining that procedure, but we have to balance security with the needs of being a community hospital."
Hospital security never received notification about Rios verbally assaulting his sister-in-law at the hospital in June.
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