He is due to appear before Dublin District Court at the Criminal Courts of Justice at 10.30am on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The charge relates to an incident at a premises on Ushers Island, Dublin 8, shortly after 9am on Friday, October 30.<\/p>\n
The doctor, a man in his 50s, was seriously assaulted during the incident. He received medical attention from garda\u00ed at the scene before being taken by ambulance to St James\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n
The consultant underwent surgery after being admitted to hospital and is now stable.<\/p>\n
The man arrested at the scene was detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at a garda station in Dublin city before being charged.<\/p>\n
The incident happened at the Usher\u2019s Island Day Hospital, which operates seven days a week and works predominantly with people experiencing homelessness, including those with mental health difficulties.<\/p>\n
The HSE confirmed that the injured man is a member of its staff and said support was being provided to him and colleagues affected by the incident.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the HSE said its immediate concern was for the staff member\u2019s wellbeing and recovery.<\/p>\n
It added that, as garda\u00ed were investigating the circumstances, it would not be appropriate to comment on specific details or the individuals involved.<\/p>\n
The HSE said the safety and wellbeing of staff and service users were taken extremely seriously and that support services were being made available to affected staff.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed said investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He is due to appear before Dublin District Court at the Criminal Courts of Justice at 10.30am on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-670997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}