Dannika Angel Archer fined for spraying blood throughout Townsville University Hospital

A pregnant woman who spurted her blood throughout a hospital ward while hurling abuse at staff has been slapped with a fine.

A PREGNANT woman who purposely spurted her blood throughout a hospital ward while hurling abuse at staff has been slapped with a fine.

Dannika Angel Archer presented to the Townsville University Hospital with abdominal pain on August 8 this year.

The Townsville Magistrates Court heard Archer became aggressive and verbally abusive towards the hospital staff while she was being assessed.

Police prosecutor Erin Collis said Archer then pulled her cannula out of her left hand causing blood to flow.

“The blood has spray on the bedding, floors as well as the staff attending to help her. She has left the bed and walked towards the exit while continually throwing her arm around,” she said.

“She has flicked blood on the computer trolley, the walls outside the nurses practitioners room and a trail of blood was left on the floor in the hallway behind her.”

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Ms Collis said as Archer flung her hand around she yelled at staff, ‘you don’t know what you’re doing you dumb c**nts and ‘ f**king dogs’.

Police arrested Archer a short time later outside the hospital.

Archer pleaded guilty to conduct causing a public nuisance.

Self-representing herself, Archer told Magistrate Viviana Keegan “being pregnant, I just flipped out”.

“I am allergic to morphine and the ambulance had to give me morphine and they were suggesting to give me more morphine through the IV drip at the hospital,” she said.

“That is the reason I acted the way I did. It was disgusting behaviour.”

Archer said she had attempted to source her medical records for Ms Keegan to prove she was allergic to morphine, but was unsuccessful.

Ms Keegan told Archer her behaviour was “traumatising”.

“You got to understand the potential danger to other people coming into contact with other people’s blood,” she said.

“The the cleaners would have had to come through and the taxpayers pay for that.”

Archer was fined $400.

A conviction was recorded.

Originally published as Dannika Angel Archer fined for spraying blood throughout Townsville University Hospital