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A personal care worker feared for life as she watched an out-of-control patient choke, punch and kick two nurses during a violent “Code White” at The Royal Ottawa Hospital in July 2012.
“I was screaming, ‘Stop! Stop! You’re killing her!’ ” Gifty Baffoe testified Wednesday in the Ontario Court of Justice.
“He was standing over her just punching her back and forth. She wasn’t protecting her face at all. I thought to myself, this is it, Gifty. You’ve got to do something.”
One of the victims, both registered practical nurses, had been choked and was lying on the floor and didn’t seem to be breathing, Baffoe testified, at times fighting back tears. The other RPN had been grabbed by the hair and thrown head first into a steel door frame. Both were also kicked and punched.
Baffoe and another support worker jumped the attacker, known in court as Patient X, to try to pull him off.
“When I was in a girl in Ghana, I was told never to fight a man face to face — they will beat you up — so I knew I had to get behind him,” she testified.
The two women grabbed the man, but he was able to throw them off. At that moment, another patient arrived and tackled Patient X.
“I said, ‘Lord Jesus thank you. Thank you for sending me an angel,’ ” Baffoe testified.
The Royal Ottawa Health Group is charged with three counts under Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act: failing to provide information, instruction and supervision to protect a worker’s safety, failing to provide means for the worker to summon immediate assistance in a case of workplace violence, and failing to take reasonable precautions to protect a worker’s safety.
The incident took place July 5, 2012, on The Royal’s Recovery Unit.
The two injured RPNs were taken to hospital by ambulance. Baffoe was urged to go to hospital, but instead waited to go to a medical clinic the next morning to be treated for a bump on her head.
The trial continues before Justice of the Peace John Doran.
bcrawford@ottawacitizen.com
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“I was screaming, ‘Stop! Stop! You’re killing her!’ ” Gifty Baffoe testified Wednesday in the Ontario Court of Justice.
“He was standing over her just punching her back and forth. She wasn’t protecting her face at all. I thought to myself, this is it, Gifty. You’ve got to do something.”
One of the victims, both registered practical nurses, had been choked and was lying on the floor and didn’t seem to be breathing, Baffoe testified, at times fighting back tears. The other RPN had been grabbed by the hair and thrown head first into a steel door frame. Both were also kicked and punched.
Baffoe and another support worker jumped the attacker, known in court as Patient X, to try to pull him off.
“When I was in a girl in Ghana, I was told never to fight a man face to face — they will beat you up — so I knew I had to get behind him,” she testified.
The two women grabbed the man, but he was able to throw them off. At that moment, another patient arrived and tackled Patient X.
“I said, ‘Lord Jesus thank you. Thank you for sending me an angel,’ ” Baffoe testified.
The Royal Ottawa Health Group is charged with three counts under Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act: failing to provide information, instruction and supervision to protect a worker’s safety, failing to provide means for the worker to summon immediate assistance in a case of workplace violence, and failing to take reasonable precautions to protect a worker’s safety.
The incident took place July 5, 2012, on The Royal’s Recovery Unit.
The two injured RPNs were taken to hospital by ambulance. Baffoe was urged to go to hospital, but instead waited to go to a medical clinic the next morning to be treated for a bump on her head.
The trial continues before Justice of the Peace John Doran.
bcrawford@ottawacitizen.com
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