 Donald Gibson is to use a special �18,000 private ward |
A man who has a court order banning him from attacking staff at a hospital in Edinburgh is to be treated in a �18,000 private ward. Donald Gibson, who needs kidney dialysis three times a week to keep him alive, is to use an "isolation facility" at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Gibson of Broomhouse Park in the capital, was taken to court by the NHS in a bid to stop him terrorising staff.
He is reported to have threatened to rape and murder nurses at the hospital.
David Bolton, chief operating officer of NHS Lothian's University Hospitals Division, said: "We have already converted a small store room in the renal out-patients department for any patients who require to be treated in isolation, and we are now also converting part of the main renal ward to provide an isolation facility there.
"Isolation facilities are required for a range of clinical and non-clinical reasons including infection control. "
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