Guarding Health: The Critical Role of Security Services in Healthcare Facilities

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Providing adequate security to a healthcare facility is challenging because you must do it with a particular understanding of the distress the patients and their families are under. Consider a scenario where an injured victim is brought into a healthcare facility, and the family is distraught, unable to understand what is to be done. This can lead to disruptive behavior among the patient family. Here, the job of a security guard is to calm the nerves of the patient’s family, help them understand that the victim will receive the best medical help, and ensure that while doing this, the integrity of the healthcare facility remains uncompromised.