A staff member at Vancouver General Hospital is receiving treatment after being assaulted on Monday night.
Vancouver police said they were called just after 7 p.m. to a parkade adjacent to the hospital, where officers found a woman in her 40s with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Adriane Gear, president of the BC Nurses’ Union, said the staff member was a nurse and she was stabbed.
“We don’t if this was targeted, if it was a random situation,” she said. “So there’s just so many more questions.”
Police said no arrests have been made.
The Vancouver police major crime section is leading the investigation.
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Gear said this incident reignites the conversation about violence in health care.
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“For my members, it doesn’t just feel like it’s getting worse. We know it’s getting worse,” she added.
“When we look at WorkSafeBC statistics, if we were having this conversation a few years ago, I would tell you that 23, 25 members, nurses a month go off on a violence-related claim because it’s a very serious injury as a result of violence.
“Now that number in 2023 went up to like 46. So there’s been like, you know, a 48 per cent increase in terms of the number of serious incidents that have resulted in time lost claims.”
Gear said the nurse is recovering from her injuries.
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