The security system at Blacktown hospital in western Sydney was questioned when two nurses were attacked in the hospital premises. Now, 50 nurses are on protest asking for 24-hours security guards for them so they could be save while they perform their duties.

The two incidents were, Edith Castro-Rivera- a nurse was giving her duty in emergency ward at 4.30 a. m. on Tuesday this week when suddenly a male patient entered the ward and hit her on the face and wounded her with a butter knife in her arm, back and breast. Another incident happened in October last year; Robyn Humphreys-Grono was badly assaulted by a psychiatric patient in the hospital's mental health unit. Both incidents have let down the nurses on the grounds that the security system was not apt.

Now, 50 nurses are on protest in which NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson has also joined. They have demanded 24-hour security guards to be stationed at the emergency department and wanted that they should be trained in face-to-face aggression management training within next six months. They have also asked that crockery and metal cutlery should be disposed off from the department.

Owing to the incidents and ongoing protest, Health Minister Jillian Skinner publicized that a security guard would be put in the emergency department from 10 p. m. until 6 a. m. from Thursday night. But NSW Nurses' Association General Secretary Brett Holmes has told that this won’t be enough to maintain the security.