John Smith wrote on Feb 25
th, 2025 at 1:12pm:
Boris wrote on Feb 24
th, 2025 at 8:42pm:
John Smith wrote on Feb 24
th, 2025 at 4:52pm:
Boris wrote on Feb 24
th, 2025 at 4:19pm:
So it's not covered up? The children are not raped? It's all lies?
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if it was covered up why are you reading about it in the media you dumbarse
Because police and hospital staff are forbidden to speak of the horror they witness
police and hospital staff are required to all their clients privacy ... not just aborigines.
You are an idiot
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/northern-territory-doctor-speaks-out-o...A doctor has revealed the horror confronting demoralised staff at the Alice Springs Hospital as they try to deal with extreme alcohol-fuelled violence and parental neglect.
The doctor – who spoke on the condition of anonymity – told SkyNews.com.au the hospital had treated patients including a baby who had been raped and a woman whose husband had tried to cut her head off.
“In the time I’ve been working here I’ve never seen the violence as bad as it is,” he said.
“It’s extreme violence. We had a patient in here the other night who tried to decapitate his wife and he cut his own throat. We had both of them in. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
He said medical and nursing staff were being assaulted regularly and the violence was making it impossible for the hospital to recruit people to fill vacant positions.
“Multiple staff, medical and nursing have been assaulted,” he said.
“One of our senior doctors the other night, he was at work staying back to help out. He got a call from his wife to say six kids were at his house - while the wife and the three kids were there – for a home invasion and stole his alcohol.
“We’ve had a junior doctor who was accosted as she walked into her accommodation. Because it’s off-site accommodation not at the hospital, the hospital won’t provide any security. And it was only her screams that alerted her husband to come and save her from being raped.”
The doctor said the hospital had been forced to remove all the hand sanitiser from the emergency department and most of the wards because patients were stealing it and drinking it.
“So we don’t have any sanitiser. Today after many days we’ve been issued personal ones but we’ve been ordered not to take them out of the hospital because we’ll be assaulted for them because of the alcohol content,” he said.
“The staff morale is so low, there’s meant to be 40 graduate nurses who just finished their qualifications starting here shortly, that number is now reduced down to 14 because the word has got out that it’s such a violent place, nurses are avoiding coming here.”
The doctor said hospital staff had approached the NT Government offering to establish a safe place for children whose lives were being put at risk by the actions of drunk parents. But he said every approach “has been met with deafening silence”.
“We want to help the kids,” he said.
“We want to keep the kids safe.
“We see the end result of people damaged by the kids or the kids damaging themselves and it’s absolutely heartbreaking. You talk to the kids about ‘are you hungry’ and they say ‘yep’, ‘are you scared?’, ‘yep’.
The doctor said the hospital staff had seen shocking incidents involving children in the past few weeks.
“Drunken parents where one kid who was eight years old had to flag down an ambulance passing by because his mum was in no fit state to care for the baby, so he grabbed the baby, waved down an ambulance and the ambulance brought the mum, eight-year-old and baby into the hospital,” he said.
“We spent hours trying to get Territory Families and when they came they wanted to send them home.
“We’ve had a small baby raped. We’ve had just in the last very short time a lady who was so drunk she fell out of her cab onto her seven-year-old son’s leg and then started abusing the kid.
"And the smaller child who was with them – there were two kids – they were so scared. She was screaming at them and drunk – these are all drunk parents – the kids were so scared when they came into us they didn’t want to go home with mum.”
The doctor said the situation was “very real” and “very sad”, but that it could also be improved.
He said he couldn’t understand why Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hadn’t taken the time to speak with frontline workers when he visited Alice Springs on Tuesday and announced new alcohol restrictions and an extension of funding for service provision.
“So all the money going to another level of bureaucracy – what’s it called now, a controller – and they’ve got a week to write a recommendation,” he said.
“If they talked to the locals, if Albanese spoke to the locals, if we could bypass the filter of protection, the wall of protection from the NT ministers, and let Albo or the federal government understand how dangerous it is, how demoralised the medical and nursing staff are, how optimistic we could be if we were allowed to have a voice.
“We don’t even have a voice and we’re the ones that see it. It’s heartbreaking. We’re all here because we want to be here. This isn’t a rotation in a city like most doctors do, we’re here because we love it and we want to learn more about