McGinty Will Soon Hold His Annual Media Circus....

....detailing how he is going to solve this type of problem and his government will protect patients. He or one of his minions has been making this promise every year since he was elected.

'What happened is a nightmare'

LISA PRIEST

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

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January 5, 2008 at 12:00 AM EST

TORONTO — How Beshry Sayed was assaulted makes for distressing reading. Distressing not only because of what happened to a frail man on his 80th birthday but because the attack occurred in the one place where his family thought he was safe: a public hospital.

The Dec. 12, 2004, act of violence by psychiatric patient Joao Carlos Freitas Henriques, who had HIV and hepatitis B, in a Toronto hospital has sparked a lawsuit by Mr. Sayed's family — and posed troubling questions about patient care and safety in Canada.

"What happened with my father is a nightmare," said his daughter, Mervat Sayed, who spoke on the condition she be identified by her birth name. "¡K Every time I saw him and I tried to feed him, I remembered what happened and I started to cry."

As a result of the assault, which reportedly involved human waste, Mr. Sayed can only receive nourishment from a gastronomy tube, according to a statement of claim filed in Ontario Superior Court. He suffered "horribly" from the incident, enduring many medical complications, including E. coli pneumonia, says the claim, which contains allegations not proven in court

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