The mother of the mental patient accused of starting last Wednesday’s hospital inferno has alleged that appalling security conditions at the Observation Ward allowed violent inmates to fashion improvised weapons and to get their hands on matches and other flammable substances.Abiola Nelson, the mother, alleged that security was so lax that a violent patient attacked her son with a sharpened broomstick a week ago and only the intervention of a guard and a male visitor saved him from serious injury.The woman also said that her son almost hanged himself twice in the ward but was saved by a young nurse and a friend who was with her.Nelson’s 20-year-old son, Leonard Nelson,Nike Air Max 1 Ultra Flyknit Womens, was detained in Bourda Street on Wednesday shortly after fleeing from the burning Observation Ward.He has since been detained at the East Ruimveldt Police Outpost, but his mother said that she has approached the courts to have him transferred to the Berbice Psychiatric Hospital.Some reports indicate that the youth set a mattress alight after another patient attacked him.However, Abiola Nelson said that a GPHC nurse told her that the patient who had assaulted her son started the fire, and that her son heaped mattresses on the blaze.The fire destroyed the male and female Observation Wards, the Outpatients Department and the Patient Care Assistants Teaching Facility.Nelson said that her son has been “in and out” of the Observation Ward for about two months after he began showing signs of mental illness.“He was violent and dangerous. He was trying to stab people and trying to hang himself.”Ms. Nelson said that she observed security lapses during her visits to the facility.According to her, there were times when there were several violent patients in the male Observation Ward and only one female nurse to supervise them.She alleged that about a week ago, a patient sharpened a broom handle and attacked her son with it. According to her,Cheap Blue Jackets Jerseys, the violent patient also threw another inmate to the ground, knocking him unconscious in the process.Ms. Nelson said that she witnessed the assault since she was visiting her son at the time.Kaieteur News was told that only one female nurse was on duty.She said that, fortunately,Dale Hawerchuk Jersey, her brother persuaded a staffer to open the door. The brother and a male security guard managed to restrain the patient, who was then sedated.Nelson said that her son was treated for minor injuries.GPHC officials have refuted Ms. Nelson’s allegation,Nike Air Vapor Max Flyknit, which was carried in a previous edition of the Kaieteur News.She alleged that afterwards,Cheap Lightning Jerseys, a medical official persuaded her to have her son discharged for his own safety. He was then taken to the Brickdam Police Station.However, the following day, Leonard Nelson escaped and plunged into the South Road canal.He was caught and returned to the Observation Ward.Ms. Nelson said that after the fire, she approached a Magistrate in the hope of having her son committed to the Berbice Psychiatric Hospital.She added that she had also sought assistance from Hospital Administrator Michael Khan in having a psychiatrist visit her son and give him his medication.However,Cheap Flyers Jerseys, she alleged that she was told that she has to contact the head of the GPHC psychiatric clinic, who is?? currently on leave.