COVID-19: DPP condemn attack, support aid for medical staffBy Jason Pan / Staff reporterThe Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus yesterday condemned a knife attack that injured three nurses at a New Taipei City hospital by a COVID-19 patient on Monday, while vowing to support amendments proposed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare to provide financial compensation to medical personnel in such cases. A police car is parked at the entrance to the emergency department of Shuang Ho Hospital in New Taipei City’s Jhonghe District yesterday after a COVID-19 patient injured three medical personnel. People were disheartened by the attack, DPP caucus director-general Liu Shyh-fang (劉世芳) told a news conference in Taipei. The legislature in 2017 amended the Medical Care Act (醫療法) to impose more severe punishments for people who use violence, coercion or intimidation to cause serious injury to medical personnel, he said. We must not permit violence to spread, to undermine our society’s safety net, held together by medical personnel,” Liu said.

Source: Taipei Times June 03, 2021 15:56 UTC