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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/man-quizzed-over-attack-at-hospital.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Police have arrested a man after two members of staff and five patients were attacked at a hospital in London" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-man-quizzed-over-attack-at-hospital.jpg" alt="Police have arrested a man after two members of staff and five patients were attacked at a hospital in London"/></a></p>
<p>A man is being held by police in connection with an attack at a hospital that left two staff members and five patients injured.</p>
<p>The two female employees received minor injuries as they restrained the 22-year-old man who was being treated at Newham General Hospital in Plaistow, east London. He is thought to have mental health problems.</p>
<p>One of the victims, a woman in her 60s, suffered serious head injuries in the attack during the early hours of Saturday but is now in a stable condition, the Metropolitan Police said.</p>
<p>An &#8220;improvised weapon&#8221; was used to strike the victims, police added.</p>
<p>The three males and one other female patient who were assaulted are in a stable condition at the hospital.</p>
<p>The force was alerted to the incident at 00.40am and arrested the man on suspicion of a public order offence. He remains in police custody.</p>
<p>It is believed the injured patients had been asleep when they were attacked on the general medical ward.</p>
<p>A spokeswoman for Newham University Hospital NHS Trust confirmed that neither drugs nor alcohol were factors in the incident.</p>
<p>Acting medical director Frank Chinegwundoh, described the spate of attacks as &#8220;freakish&#8221;. Saying it was not unusual for patients to launch attacks on other patients, he said: &#8220;In all my 26 years of practising I have not come across another one like it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hospital bosses refused to reveal what the suspect used as a makeshift weapon, but said they did not believe he had brought it into the hospital.</p>
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