Local patient attacks nurse at Guangzhou hospital

A local 59-year-old patient who is allegedly suffering from mental health problems was arrested in a Guangzhou hospital early last Friday after attacking and injuring a female nurse with a fruit knife. The Chinese police’s initial inquiry suggests that the hospitalized man was suffering from hallucinations that the hospital’s medical staff were persecuting him, prompting the attack on the nurse, who was looking through another patient’s medical records at the nurses’ station at the time. The 28-year-old nurse received three gashes, two on her back and left arm and one on her face. The attacker escaped the bloody scene, but was later apprehended by police after reaching another floor.