Patient's Gun Fires In Emergency Room
DANVILLE, Pa. (AP) - The state health department wants a thorough review after a patient's gun fired as he was being treated in the emergency room at a central Pennsylvania hospital.
The bullet entered the top of a wall and no one was hit.
A spokesman for Geisinger Medical Center in Danville says it happened around 8 p.m. Thursday as the man was being turned by ER staff inside a trauma bay.
The Bloomsburg Press Enterprise reports the spokesman, Mike Ferlazzo, says a handgun fell out of the patient's pocket and fired.
Police say the patient had a permit for that gun and that they don't consider it a criminal matter.
Holli Senior, a spokeswoman for the state health department, says Geisinger needs to conduct a thorough review of the incident to determine if corrective action is needed.
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