A doctor was slightly injured yesterday after a 30-year-old allegedly stabbed him at Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital in New Taipei City, authorities said.
Chiang Han-sun (江漢聲), a urologist and a former president of Fu Jen Catholic University, was seeing patients at the hospital at about 2pm when the incident occurred, police sources said.
The suspect, surnamed Tseng (曾), took out a utility knife when he entered Chiang’s office and slashed him on his right wrist and the left side of his stomach before being tackled and restrained by hospital security, the sources said.
Photo courtesy of Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital
The New Taipei City Police Department’s Sinjhuang Precinct said that it had taken Tseng into custody and, after questioning, would turn him over to prosecutors on suspicion of causing bodily harm and breaches of the Medical Care Act (醫療法).
The hospital said in a statement that its medical staff had quickly gone to the aid of Chiang, whose injuries were not life-threatening.
It also pledged to fully comply with the police investigation and condemned the alleged act of violence against a medical professional.
Police have yet to confirm Tseng’s motive.
Chinese-language media, citing anonymous police sources, reported that Tseng was a Fu Jen University dropout who had been accused, but cleared, of embezzling university funds while Chiang was university president.
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