A real war bulletin. An escalation of endless violence that sees Italian nurses once again become sacrificial victims of the inexplicable anger of a part of the community in deep crisis.
At the root of it is a dangerous bad culture, as insidious as cancer, which has nothing to do with a civilized country like ours. There are no other words to describe what happened between Christmas and New Year's in Italian hospitals from North to South.
The lack of staff was not enough, the grueling shifts and the missed holidays were not enough. In particular, the emergency rooms, with the influx of patients becoming in most cases unmanageable, have transformed into a real powder keg.
What we are telling you, reconstructed with the solid support of local journalists with whom we are constantly in contact, is a truly dramatic toll. Six official physical attacks were reported in the space of a few days that characterized these end-of-year holidays.
Numbers that bring to light a very serious situation, which has reached a critical point more than ever". Thus Antonio De Palma, National President of Nursing Up.
"Kicks, punches, slaps, threats: scenarios that we always struggle to describe, such is the indignation, as well as the absurdity of what happens every day and that has been dramatically repeated, in recent days, in the corridors of our hospitals."
• Nurse kicked at the CTO in Naples (62nd official assault since the beginning of the year in the city context, 28 December).
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• Nurse attacked and threatened in the emergency room of the Pediatric Hospital in Bari (December 28). The man even fainted due to the stress of the attack.
• Nurse and doctor slapped by relatives of a recently deceased patient who go into a rage. It happens in the emergency room of the San Paolo in Naples (December 26).
• Nurses and other health workers attacked in the emergency room of the Livorno hospital (December 27)
• Cassino, nurse attacked by mentally ill patient. The man even throws a monitor at him (December 26).
• Vicenza: 118 nurse punched (24 December).
"Do you really think it's over here? If all this is what is officially known about the period from Christmas to New Year's, who knows how many episodes of violence end up in the "mare magnum" of the hidden, which are not reported out of fear or, even worse, because of what could become a dangerous habituation to serious facts like these: habit.
We cannot accept all this", concludes De Palma.
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