Patient attacked and killed in Cork hospital

Agitated.....

Wonder what the younger chap was in for, was it in A&E or in a ward I wonder

My wife was in A/E in CUH last Sunday night. A male patient fitting the age if this guy was going a bit nuts and the staff mentioned him being moved to the Mercy and given "something to calm him down" He had injuries to his head and knuckles...

Horrific way for that poor old man to die. RIP.

Hospital is no place for the sick, covid MRSA frequent flyers lax security or zero security at all

How would you expect nurse's to stop a violent attack involving someone with mental health issues,

We absolutely need more and larger facilities for dealing with people that shouldn't be sent to a&e

I didn't say I expected them to stop it, but this guy should have been under supervision at all times, its their job to make sure patients are safe at all times.

I doubt you would be so forgiving if it was your father it happened to.

My elderly father in law was in the same hospital last year and was harassed there by another patient looking for money, I found it so upsetting that this could happen to someone in hospital, his family must be distraught.

Well then if there was nobody there that was able to control him he should never have been let inside the door in the first place.

Well then there is a problem in the system you work in, a man is dead in a place where he should have been kept safe.

You can come out with smart arse comments about secret farms but a life has been lost and somebody has to be held accountable as to how it happened.

Easy to say when you know the result. Not so easy when the situation happens every day in an Irish hospital and nothing happens in the end.

Absolutely awful poor man.

so much of our health systems are not suitable for modern needs. Government absolutely asleep at the wheel, closing mental health facilities, drugs endemic at this stage. Old people in general hospitals as they have no where else to go to recuperate, too few staff, not enough medicines, I could go on. An investigation will occur, lessons will be learned but nothing will change. My condolences to that man’s family and friends, horrific for them.

I doubt the blame will get as far as the government because it never does but they're accountable. I dare say a nurse or two will lose their job but nothing will change, it won't be any safer for people. The HSE is unsafe and I wouldn't want a loved one being a patient in it at present.

Why would a nurse or two lose their job over this incident? We know very little about it but it's hard to see circumstances where a nurse would lose their job over something like this.

I would think nurses are the least likely to face disciplinary action if any is warranted in this case, and that's not a given. The nurses aren't the ones admitting patients into the hospital. They are only there to look after those admitted or being treated. They aren't bodyguards or bouncers and can't be expected to be everywhere all the time.

Regarding your 'sh*t flows downstream' comment. You can't sack a nurse if they haven't done something wrong. And it would have to be something very serious to warrant being sacked. So, if a doctor screws up, you can't sack the nurse. We have laws to stop stuff like that.

I've spent a lot of nights there and honestly there is **** all to prevent anyone suddenly attacking another person so all this blame towards the staff is just nonsense. Security is generally around the two entrances anyway and by the time they could respond to an incident upstairs in either block the damage would already be done.

Vast majority of staff there are the most decent honest people I've ever had the pleasure to be around and if I hadn't been a fool when I was younger I'd love nothing more than to work there too.