Stabbing victim finds care at supervised injection site
Posted November 28, 2011 11:12 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – It’s not the type of care nurses at Vancouver’s supervised injection site on Hastings Street are used to providing.
Insite‘s Alan Mackinnon says a man with stab wounds stumbled into Insite just before 5:30 p.m. Monday evening.
“I could tell he was bleeding from his belly, and he said that he had been stabbed, and didn’t even know why; said he had been stabbed for no reason,” says Mackinnon.
Staff at the injection site called 911 and the stabbing victim was transported to hospital by ambulance.
The matter is being investigated by Vancouver Police, but they have not released details on possible suspects or the victim’s condition.
Mackinnon says he didn’t speak much with the man.
“He came here for medical attention, which is what I gave him immediately, and contacted the nurses who work here,” he says. “We treated him in the treatment room, and I said maybe three words to him, I said ‘Apply pressure!'”
Mackinnon adds it’s the first time he’s seen someone with a stab wound come to Insite for care.