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'We are scared' -Gunmen terrorise staff at Spanish Town Hospital

Published:Saturday | March 12, 2011 | 12:00 AM
A policeman patrols a section of March Pen Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine, yesterday. There was an increased police presence in the Old Capital after gunmen invaded the Spanish Town Hospital, robbing staff and driving fear into patients. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer

Edmond Campbell, Senior Staff Reporter

"WE ARE scared." That was how a worker at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine described the mood of staff at the institution after an early morning of 'terror' caused by gun-toting thugs at the King of Spain Wing.

An eyewitness told The Gleaner yesterday that about 2:45 a.m. Friday, a man armed with an A-K 47 assault rifle entered Ward One and accosted medical staff who were attending to patients.

The employees were roughed up and robbed of their cellular phones, money, and jewellery.

According to an eyewitness, a doctor suffered physical abuse after he apparently did not respond to an instruction from the gunman.

The gunman gave orders using 'street language'.

The Gleaner was later informed that the doctor was a Burmese national who apparently did not understand the Jamaican vernacular.