Hospital forced to chain toys to bed to prevent thefts

[Northerner]

A hospital in south Wales has started chaining toys to children's beds in a bid to prevent them being stolen.

Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital has suffered a spate of thefts which prompted staff to use bike locks to secure toys to the side of cots.

Dean Beddis, whose two-year-old son was treated at the hospital, said it was shocking nurses were forced to resort to such measures.

The hospital said: "Unfortunately we do get toys and games taken."

Mr Beddis, from Newport, told Wales Online: "Those toys are there for kids who are seriously ill. They're provided by the hospital and people are stealing them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-30776322

 

[HOBIE]

Whats going on 😡 People arnt that hard up shurly ?

 

[trophywench]

One of the hospitals had all the kid's Xmas gifts, which people had donated to the wards, stolen - from a locked cupboard! - good-hearted people and companies soon replaced them - but that's hardly the point is it?

I was given to wishing the felons be struck down with every disease those kiddies have, and I also hoped they would survive in agony for a very long time - before all having vile deaths - preferably without any medical treatment.

I had to stop myself before I thought anything worse .......