A patient who had already displayed violent behavior on other occasions attack to a doctor at the emergency room of the Pilar de la Horadada health center (Alicante), because he did not want to prescribe tranquilizers and offered him other medications so that he could spend the night and go see his specialist the next day.
Although at first he seemed to have accepted, when the nurse was about to inject him with the other alternative medications, his anger was unleashed and when the doctor arrived, he physically confronted him and made him gesture take out a sharp object or a knife from your pocket to threaten you.
Finally, police officers intervened after the warning. Local police and of Civil Guardafter medical center staff managed to bring him down to prevent injury.
Apparently, on several occasions, this same patient had already jump about other doctorsdissatisfied with your attention.
The Department of Health He expressed his “rejection” on Wednesday and “more categorically” conviction” to this attack at the point of continuous care of these establishments, as reported by sources of the department directed by Marciano Gómez.
They will ask the Lawyers of the Generalitat for the personification of the Autonomous Administration as a private accusation in the procedure, as provided for in the Comprehensive Plan for the Prevention of Aggressions in the Health Environment of this department.
This attack is in addition to another recently recorded in Orihuela (Alicante). In this case, a couple was arrested for allegedly assaulting an anesthesiologist at the Vega Baja hospital, causing him injuries. They are the parents of a minor who was operated on that morning at the center, according to the Civil Guard.
Likewise, the Workers’ Union Council denounced this Wednesday that on September 10, a Technical of EMERGENCIES Sanitarias (TES) was attacked while carrying out its duties. The union, which called a concentration Friday at Vega Baja Hospital, criticized the lack of protocol for the transfer of prisoners and psychiatric patients, as well as for the attacks.
Last March, the Ministry launched a Campaign of awareness against attacks on health personnel with the motto “It is a crime”, because protecting professionals and avoiding this type of attack is a “priority” for this department, which recalls that attacks on health personnel are crime and will therefore result in consequences in the form of penalties, sanctions and fines.
Health personnel are recognized as public authority in Law 10/2014 of December 29 on Health of the Valencian Community, therefore an assault on a health worker has criminal consequences, as provided for in the Penal Code, it is considered an assault and the perpetrators face between six months and three years in prison, even when the assault occurred outside their workplace, motivated by their status as a health worker.
