Hospital patients attacked in bed

Security at the Hospital is being reviewed

SECURITY arrangements at the General Hospital are being urgently reviewed after two patients – one an 89-year-old man – were attacked in their beds.
A nurse who tried to stop the assaults, allegedly committed by another patient with no connection to the victims, was also set upon.
The States police have been called in to investigate the incidents which allegedly happened in the early hours of Friday.
A Health spokesman said: ‘The situation was quickly resolved by staff who were on the scene and the two patients allegedly assaulted received minor injuries and are recovering.
‘The third patient [the alleged attacker] has been discharged (from JEP)