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UPDATED EVERY FRIDAY
Last Update:
Friday 28th January, 2005
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New Journal Enterprises, 2004.
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Blitz on A&E drug dealers
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DEALERS openly sold class A drugs inside the accident and emergency
ward at University College London Hospital until security was tightened,
its chief executive has revealed.
Robert Naylor said dealers had learned that staff segregated drug
addicts in a section of the ward so they were easier to deal with.
He said dealers regularly came into that part of the ward to sell
crack and heroin to the addicts until new security measures were
brought in.
Speaking to the New Journal at the Middlesex Hospital in Mortimer
Street, Fitzrovia, on Thursday, he said: “It was a terrible
situation.”
Addicts are now segregated and security staff make sure dealers
do not get into the ward in Grafton Way, Bloomsbury.
A hospital spokesman said the problem had ended 18 months ago.
He added: “The changes made included closing the toilets for
a period but they had to be re-opened for public access.”
An accident and emergency staff source said dealing had been an
intermittent problem in the street outside the ward.
Drug addicts were often admitted to accident and emergency with
“overdoses or horrible abscesses where they have repeatedly
injected themselves”, the source added.
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