Cosatu in Gauteng says health facilities that accommodate mentally ill patients need to be redesigned. This follows reports of attacks on hospital staff by patients.
It is alleged that, in some instances, nurses became victims of biting, scratching, and kicking by patients. Nurses have been punched in the face, and security guards have been hit as well.
Health authorities confirmed that over 60 such incidents have been reported since January last year. The federation’s representative in the province, Vusi Monyela, says the matter needs urgent attention.
“And this violent behaviour, we think, is a result of the facilities that we are having. These facilities must be improved, to accommodate the kind of (patients) that we are dealing with. Because, well, these patients are not (sic), but they are trying to communicate something. However, the facilities must be of a nature that is going to make sure that there’s no violence between a nurse and a mental patient,” says Monyela.
Source: SABC
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