Doctor stabbed in psychiatric ward of Bolzano hospital

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 17 - A doctor was stabbed by a former patient in the psychiatric ward of Bolzano's San Maurizio Hospital late on Monday in the latest in a string of attacks on health workers in Italy.
    The male assailant, aged 57, struck the doctor in the back with a kitchen knife, dropped the weapon and fled, sources said.
    The doctor was not seriously injured.
    Police tracked the man down at his home.
    He subsequently admitted to the attack but gave no a plausible justification for it.
    The attacker was charged and initially released, as it was considered unlikely that he would try to flee justice, but the city's police chief made an urgent request for him to be detained given the seriousness of what he did. (ANSA).