‘Help me’: Syracuse doctor assaulted by patient as hospital violence reaches alarming levels

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Violence against healthcare workers is on the rise, and hospital leaders say it’s becoming a serious safety crisis.

Dr. Sharon Ekure, MBBS, a psychiatrist at St. Joseph’s Health Hospital, is still recovering after she was recently attacked by a patient earlier this month.

“I was doing my routine assessment of my patient for that day. He was the last patient I had to see,” said Ekure…

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