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A man has been charged after staff at a Western Sydney hospital were allegedly attacked and stabbed.
Police were called to Westmead Hospital at around 11.30pm yesterday where four members of staff are believed to have been assaulted by a 39-year-old man.
Two security guards, aged 24 and 25, were allegedly stabbed in an attempt to calm him down
One is said to have been stabbed in the neck and the other in the wrist.
The couple is in stable condition.
A third security guard dislocated his shoulder and a nurse suffered minor injuries.
The man, believed to be a patient, was arrested and placed under police guard at the hospital before being taken to Parramatta Police Station.
He is now charged with multiple crimes.
These include two counts of assaulting frontline health workers causing actual bodily harm, one count of assaulting a frontline worker without actual bodily harm and one count of simple assault and resisting arrest with a weapon.
Police refused him bail and he will appear at Parramatta Local Court tomorrow.
NSW Health Services Union secretary Gerard Hayes has called for greater protection for health workers following the alleged attack.
“We have consistently pushed for more security numbers and powers and will continue to push for that and better personal protective equipment,” he said.
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