What a shame, a drunken patient kills another patient!!!

Morning’s bugle was about the killing of a weak patient by a drunken patient in the closed ward of the General Hospital, Ernakulam, on Wednesday.

Three more patients were injured in the attack by the liquor addict. It is learnt that the attacker was simply beating others with a stick.

The fellow appears to have been suffering from withdrawal syndrome. He wants liquor at any cost. What can other poor patients do to the demands of this fellow?
Definitely, confining the violent person with others was a mistake. Maybe, there was no separate block for treating addicts.

With escalating instances of violence unleashed by drug and liquor addicts, there is a crying need for setting up separate de-addiction centres at government expense. The government which gets a lot of revenue from sale of liquor should set apart sufficient funds for the purpose.

Drugs and liquor are available at joints everywhere in the state. In the days to come, the state would be forced to face violence from addicts of all kinds.