Barricaded in a room with no way out for fear of being attacked. That’s how they have to work. Italian health workers in some regions of the country.
“Assaults in emergency rooms are on the agenda“Last month there were at least three. There is a struggle between the population and health workers,” said one woman.
This Sunday there was a new attempted assault by the relatives of a young woman who died during an emergency operation at the hospital in Foggia. A new episode, but they experience situations like this every day. That’s why they even asked the army to protect them.They don’t feel safe in their jobs.
“We spent a night of terror in which we were forced to lock ourselves in a room. I looked at the person’s face and saw anger with an aggressive tone of voice and threatening words,” says one of the toilets in Foggia.
Doctors and nurses say such brutality has never been seen before, and unions call the attacks intolerable. In 2022, a man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the murder of a doctor with an axe outside a hospital in the country.
Only In 2023, there were more than 16,000 physical and verbal attacks in Italian hospitalsA situation that is beginning to become critical in the transalpine country.
