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Inail, 12,000 medical injuries due to assaults in 5 years

2022-03-11T09:58:26.427Z


In the five-year period 2016-2020, more than 12 thousand cases of accidents at work were ascertained by Inail and codified as violence, aggression and threats perpetrated against healthcare personnel, with an average of about 2,500 per year. (HANDLE)


(ANSA) - ROME - In the five-year period 2016-2020 there were more than 12 thousand cases of accidents at work ascertained by Inail and codified as violence, assaults and threats perpetrated against healthcare personnel, with an average of about 2,500 a year .

The Institute notes this on the occasion of the first National Day of education and prevention against violence against health and social-health workers, which this year is celebrated annually on 12 March.

Most of the accidents took place in hospitals and nursing homes and the most injured - nearly three quarters - were health workers.

46% of these accidents, explains Inail, are concentrated in the 'health care' sector, which includes hospitals, nursing homes, institutes, clinics and university polyclinics;

28% were found in 'residential social assistance services' (rest homes, nursing care facilities, reception centers), while the remaining 26% falls within the 'non-residential social assistance' sector.

Regarding gender, almost three quarters of the injured are women, with 64% ascertained in hospitals and nursing homes, and 80% in social care facilities.

   Nurses and professional educators - normally engaged in educational and rehabilitation services with minors, drug addicts, alcoholics, prisoners, the disabled, psychiatric patients and the elderly in health or socio-educational facilities - are the most affected categories, with more than a third of total of cases.

Following, with 25% of cases, are the socio-health workers of the 'skilled professions in health and social services' and with 15% the 'skilled professions in personal and similar services', especially socio-welfare workers and assistants. escorts for people with disabilities.

More distant, with 5% of cases of aggression in healthcare, the category of doctors, which does not include general practitioners and freelancers in the Inail insurance obligation.

   During the National Day, education and awareness-raising initiatives are promoted.

Established by law n.113 of 14 August 2020, the Day was launched last January by a decree of the Ministry of Health in concert with the Ministries of Education, University and Research.

Order, 5% assaults on doctors in 5 years is given underestimated

The Inail figure relating to injuries to doctors due to violence and aggression, equal to 5% over 5 years from 2016 to 2020, "is certainly an underestimated figure, both because it refers only to the type of more serious attacks and because it is relating to hospital doctors only, while general practitioners and on-call doctors are not included in the Inail insurance obligation ".

This was underlined by Filippo Anelli, president of the National Federation of the orders of surgeons and dentists (Fnomceo). 

    "It must in fact be considered - explains Anelli - that an important part of the attacks takes place in the area, or rather among the doctors of the medical guard who are not included in the Inail survey".

Furthermore, he specifies, "a high percentage of assaults are not reported by doctors, because they are minor attacks for which in many cases the doctor decides not to report and not get sick".

Precisely for this reason, he affirms, "we have asked and obtained that the current law against violence against health care provides for the admissibility of the office".

This, concludes Aneli, "will allow for more reliable data with respect to the real dimension of the phenomenon".

(HANDLE).


Source: ansa

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