Attacks on hospitals leave medics in fear
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Security at hospitals is under siege, with a series of violent assaults on medical staff causing anxiety and fear for both doctors and patients, say police.
Last week, a group of 30 armed gangsters stormed into Gia Dinh People’s Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City searching for a patient admitted to the emergency room. The gang tried to smash down the door of a room, threatening to kill the doctors inside, but fled once police arrived.
Last month at Vu Thu General Hospital in Thai Binh Province, two doctors were stabbed, one of them to death, after they pronounced a patient dead following an hour of treatment in the emergency room.
A series of violent acts against medical staff are recorded to have taken place at Binh Dinh General Hospital in central Binh Dinh Province, HCM City-based Cho Ray Hospital and Nam Can General Hospital in southernmost Ca Mau Province in the past five months, in which the families of patients repeatedly insulted, yelled and threatened to beat up doctors and damage property.
