Barbara Capovani killed a year ago by a patient outside the hospital where she worked. The Italian Society of Psychiatry continues to ask for better safety in the workplace.
Every year there are over 2 thousand cases of violence in healthcare. Of all these, according to Anaao-Assomed data, 34% take place in a psychiatric setting with 21% in the emergency room. The abolition of the Lamorgese Circular on the prohibition of intervention by the police in emergency rooms and departments is one of the open problems, says SIP president Emi Bondi. "Certainly a law full of good intentions but applied poorly and poorly" adds the national secretary Guido Di Sciascio, national secretary of SIP. "The psychiatry of these '20s' of the new millennium has nothing to do with that of the seventies of the last century" says the elected president Liliana Dell'Osso, SIP's first female president. "Society has changed, psychic pathologies have grown in number, since they are diagnosed more precisely and earlier."