UK Hospitals need Stab and bullet-proof vests

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Knife crime: Anti-stab protection vests given to key staff

· Hospital workers get body armour

· New moves to tackle knife crime

* Mark Townsend and Gaby Hinsliff, The Observer, July 6 2008

The growing fear of knife crime in Britain is forcing hospital trusts

and local authorities to supply body armour to frontline workers,

including A & E staff, hospital porters, teachers, benefits officers and

traffic wardens.

Stab and bullet-proof vests are being ordered in their tens of

thousands to protect employees from increased levels of aggression, a

move described as 'a shameful indictment of violence in Britain today'...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/06/knifecrime.ukcrime1

One wonders if hospitals have thought of stockpiling body armor for a

pandemic?