Staff attached to the Psychiatric Hospital located in New Amsterdam (NA) are at their wits end dealing with the conditions they are being forced to endure on a daily basis at the facility.
Yesterday morning several staff participated in a three-hour-long ‘sit out’ outside of the hospital, after a patient reportedly attacked a nurse within the facility’s compound.
Stabroek News was told that the patient who was transferred to the hospital sometime last week, made a hole in the wall of one of the single rooms in the compound. However, with two senior citizen security guards, not much could have been done to restrain the patient who reportedly then used a piece of wood to attack a male nurse who was in the area at the time.