Tunisia-Bab Saadoun Children’s Hospital: Patient’s father attacks staff, destroys medical equipment

Fares Sebii, a health worker, announced on Thursday, December 24 that the father of a sick patient at Bab Saadoun Children’s Hospital, had scattered panic within the establishment and intentionally crashed medical equipment and broke a window.

The individual is said to have become enraged after a dispute between his wife (the patient’s mother) and a doctor who ordered her to wash her son’s mouth, IFM reported.

He also supposedly assaulted medical and paramedical staff operating at the hospital, according to the same source.