ManitobaA woman has been arrested after a doctor was assaulted by a patient at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg on the weekend.2nd assault at Manitoba’s largest hospital in less than 2 weeksCBC News · Posted: Nov 03, 2025 12:57 PM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesA patient in her 30s is charged with assault with a weapon after a doctor was assaulted at Health Sciences Centre on Sunday. (Jaison Empson/CBC)A woman has been arrested after a doctor was assaulted at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg on the weekend. The assault was reported to Winnipeg police on Sunday shortly before 11 a.m., a spokesperson for the force told CBC.Security staff at the hospital were dealing with a patient who had assaulted an on-call doctor, police said. A patrol unit at the facility for another matter helped security staff before requesting assistance from police officers stationed at HSC. Police didn’t have information about the extent of injuries to those involved, but said boxes were used as a weapon during the assault.A woman in her 30s was arrested and faces a charge of assault with a weapon, police said. She was detained in custody.In a statement, Shared Health confirms police and HSC institutional safety officers arrested a person who assaulted a physician in the adult emergency department.”Any form of assault is unacceptable in a place of work and has a significant impact on all staff. Shared Health extends its support to the physician who experienced Sunday’s traumatic event and is working with them to provide the support they need,” the statement reads in part.”Incidents like this serve as a reminder of the challenges health-care workers face every day. They also reinforce the importance of our ongoing work to strengthen safety measures and ensure a secure environment for everyone at HSC. Shared Health remains committed to improving security across the campus and working with our system partners to protect staff, patients and visitors.”Officers added at hospital, says ministerA health-care aide and a nurse were assaulted by a patient at the same hospital less than two weeks ago.Manitoba Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said any violence is unacceptable and the government will continue working to make sure health-care facilities in the province are safer. At Health Sciences Centre, access points have been reduced and dozens of institutional safety officers have been added to improve security, the minister told reporters at an unrelated news conference on Monday.Asagwara also said five new weapons detectors will come online at the hospital soon. Doctors Manitoba, the organization that advocates for physicians in the province, says it’s “deeply distressed” to learn of the assault, which it learned about from Shared Health “within hours” of the incident on Sunday.”We have reached out directly to the physician to offer our support as they navigate recovery, and to hear more about what happened to identify further opportunities to improve safety,” Doctors Manitoba said in a written statement Monday.”All physicians, staff, patients, and visitors deserve a safe and secure space in and around HSC and all health facilities in the province. While we’ve seen significant steps to improve safety at HSC in recent months, this terrible assault is an unnecessary reminder that more actions are needed.”
Doctor assaulted by patient at Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg police say
