Nurses continue push for increased security after incident at St. Paul’s Hospital

Nurses are continuing to fight for more security measures after an incident in Saskatoon’s St. Paul’s Hospital on Nov. 27th.

In a Facebook post highlighting the need for more security, the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) explains a patient concealing a sawed-off shotgun, multiple rounds of ammunition, and three knives had entered St. Paul’s Hospital.

He asked to use the washroom before being taken to a psychiatric hold room, when a custodian later found the shotgun inside the bathroom. After a pat-down, security found one knife on the man as he became more violent.

The man was contained in a room until police arrived, where he had two more knives and began stabbing an inner window while threating staff with violence and sexual assault.

SUN says they are seeing cases like this