All emergency department staff at Broome Hospital are to undertake self-defence lessons in the wake of new figures showing they deal with about 10 incidents each week involving alcohol or drug-fuelled violence from people seeking treatment. Figures from the WA Country Health Service reveal there were 488 reported incidents of violence out of 24,354 presentations in 2017. That equates to 2 per cent, or about 41 people every month.
