three people stabbed by a patient at Montauban hospital, one of them seriously injured

Three people were stabbed on Wednesday March 29 at Montauban hospital in Tarn-et-Garonne by a patient, a police source told franceinfo. One of them is in serious condition. The seriously affected victim is a hospital civil servant, according to the CGT joined by France Bleu Occitanie. His vital prognosis is engaged. He was in the aisles of the central building at the time of the attack. The attack took place on the ground floor of the hospital during the lunch break. According to a police source, the author of the stab wounds is a patient known to the psychiatric services of the hospital. He was arrested and taken into custody.

According to France Bleu Occitanie, the CGT says it has repeatedly alerted the hospital management and the health authorities to the deterioration in the supply of care, working conditions and the exhaustion of staff. The Force Ouvrière union indicates that incidents have been regular in recent months. He reports assaults on staff by insufficiently cared for patients. Thursday, the agents of the psychiatry department had also planned to warn the press to denounce the working conditions at the hospital, before the supervisory board of the hospital. According to the CGT, the management plans to close around thirty psychiatric beds, to recover staff for other services. Several beds were already closed four years ago.