A patient’s family member has glue and injured a anesthetist after an operation at the Vega Baja hospital in Orihuela (Alicante), where the staff announced a demonstration for this Friday in rejection of this aggression. The victim required medical care.
After hearing about the case following the complaint of the Medical Unionwho, together with the College of Physicians of Alicante, claimed measures to the Administration to put an end to this type of violence against doctors, the Ministry of Health issued an equally “resounding” statement. conviction” of this attack.
The staff of the Oriolano hospital center has called a meeting for this Friday demonstration of rejection, after this new episode of a scourge reported several times because the number of cases in which doctors are attacked is increasing.
Advice
Through the Occupational Risk Prevention Service and the Legal Service of the Orihuela Health Department, the Department of Health proposed advice And legal assistance to the victim, who suffered the attack on Wednesday and has already been released.
Likewise, Health will request the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Generalitat to appear as a private prosecutor in the proceedings, as provided for in the Comprehensive Plan for the Prevention of Aggressions in the Health Environment of the Ministry of Health.
Last March, the Generalitat launched an awareness campaign against attacks on health personnel with the slogan “It is a crime”, because protecting professionals and avoiding this type of attack is a “priority” for the Valencian Health Administration, which recalls that attacks against health personnel are crime and have consequences in the form of sorrowssanctions and fines.
Health personnel are recognized as a public authority, so an attack on a health worker has criminal consequencesAs provided for in the Penal Code, they were recalled from the department headed by Marciano Gómez.
Since the reform of the Penal Code in 2015, attacking or seriously intimidating a health professional has been considered an assault offence. Attackers could serve prison sentences ranging from six months to three years, even if the attack took place outside their workplace but was motivated by their health condition.
