Butterworth doctor investigated for patient assault

By Khanyisa Tabata
10 July 2011

An Eastern Cape doctor has been arrested at a Butterworth hospital.

Nurses say the casualty doctor was intoxicated when he allegedly assaulted two patients, one of them a six-year-old boy and the other a woman.

A security guard and an off-duty police officer intervened during the alleged assaults.

The doctor, in his 40s, was then arrested.

Provincial health department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo says a team was sent to the hospital to investigate the incidents.