“Violence is raging really out of control in these hospitals,” said Michael Hurley, OCHU’s president. “The level of physical violence, sexual harassment, sexual assault, verbal assault, and racial name-calling is at a level which is toxic and simply shouldn’t be ignored or tolerated.”According to a new survey of Ontario health-care workers, incidents like these aren’t isolated tragedies. A young father who comes home day after day from his health-care job with a black eye. While the vast majority of front-line workers reported experiencing physical violence at least once in the past year, a fifth of those surveyed also said they had experienced nine or more incidents in the same time frame. And out of the blue, there’s a vicious assault,” he said of health-care workers.

Source: thestar November 05, 2017 11:03 UTC