Naples – The fight against violence against healthcare workers remains a top priority for Neapolitan institutions. During the Committee for Public Order and Safety held today at the Prefecture, Prefect Michele di Bari gave a thorough assessment of the measures implemented, outlining the strategy for the coming months.
The meeting was attended by the general directors of the ASL Napoli 1, 2, and 3, the heads of the city's main hospitals (from Cardarelli to Santobono, up to the Policlinici), along with representatives of the Order of Physicians and Nursing Professions.
Sensitive facilities are under armour
Data analysis confirmed the effectiveness of the police squads already deployed at six major hospitals in the metropolis. However, vigilance doesn't stop with physical guards alone: law enforcement will continue to provide specific services in emergency rooms, the critical outposts where the highest number of incidents of verbal and physical abuse occur.
The safety device aims to create a widespread protection network around doctors and paramedics, who are too often victims of assault during their shifts.
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Technology against illegality
One of the most significant innovations discussed during the summit concerns the technological aspect of prevention. So-called "point-to-point" telephone lines have already been installed, direct channels that instantly connect hospitals with police and Carabinieri operations centers.
This system is designed to reduce reaction times, allowing immediate intervention at the first sign of danger.
A common front for legality
The meeting was also attended by the Councillor for Legality of the Municipality of Naples and the top provincial leaders of the Carabinieri, Guardia di Finanza, Fire Brigade, Local and Metropolitan Police.
The massive institutional presence underscores the desire to create a united front: the goal is not only to repress past incidents of violence, but to re-establish a climate of safety and dignity within healthcare facilities, which are considered critical to maintaining public order.
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To solve the problem, intervene in healthcare.
The emergency is the level of corruption and nepotism reached in a sensitive sector like hospitals: people, exasperated, respond with good old-fashioned violence, which is a kind of great "leveler" for the living. The Prefect is treating the symptoms, but not the disease, and as long as everyone turns their heads elsewhere, the situation will become even more violent and unmanageable, moving outside the hospitals, directly onto the streets or into the homes of healthcare workers.
It's not safety but the lack of doctors
If you are doing everything to make us go to private
To pay
Increase pensions
Salaries
Put more doctors in, that's how you solve the problem, going to the emergency room and finding out that nobody gives a damn about you while you're in a panic is terrible
They should learn how to treat people and all the hospital staff should learn the ways... people can't take it anymore... it's a total disgrace, especially in the emergency rooms...
I shot them all for my parents and I assure you that 90 percent of them are really worth it...let's forget it!!!!
Take away all these supplies and put patrols on the streets
And add more staff because a night emergency room can't accommodate just two people and people outside wait for hours and hours
Often, you know when you're coming in, but you don't know when you're leaving. We need not only more security in hospitals, but also listening centers for families experiencing difficult situations, with real social and legal support for everyone, doctors and patients.
Maybe these people don't realize how much you go to the emergency room
The people are no longer there, enough is enough, we have reached the limit
In addition to the criticisms which are legitimate, I think that the lack of staff unfortunately leads to some unpleasant incidents.
But it takes a prefect to restore a police squad in every hospital, a little organization and common sense would not be bad and in case of assault, immediately in prison without discounts or complaints
It's not safety and prevention that we need to "accelerate," but rather the hiring of professionals!!! We need doctors and nurses, damn it!
The idea of protecting doctors and paramedics is a good one, but I wonder if the measures they've implemented are truly effective. They'll certainly help, but greater community involvement is also needed to support healthcare workers.
It's true that technology helps, but I think the most important thing is to educate people to respect those who work in hospitals. Violence shouldn't be the answer, but unfortunately it happens too often.
open the hospitals, the staff is right but also the sick, put the family doctors to make house calls so that the few hospitals that exist will lighten the load