A crime scene: 3 hospital workers hurt by patient at Halifax emergency room [Video]

Three employees at the Halifax Infirmary emergency department were hurt by a patient Wednesday in what Nova Scotia’s health minister is calling a “serious incident.”

Health Minister Michelle Thompson said the department was subject to a “threat,” which has since been contained by Halifax Regional Police.

Thompson told reporters a Code Silver was called in at roughly 1 p.m.

Trevor Desroches, who was asleep in the ER at the time waiting for care, told Global News he heard a commotion.

“Laying there sleeping and then I heard a scream — a woman in the bathroom yelling,” he recalled.

Mishell Laubenthal was also in the ER with her husband, who had been admitted hours earlier.

“We were just in the room there today and all of a sudden a security popped his head and said, ‘Ok you can’t leave, don’t let anyone in unless it’s staff,’ and locked the door,” she said.

Karen Oldfield, interim …