(ANSA) - BARI, 14 JAN - A young nurse on duty at the Di Venere hospital in Bari was attacked yesterday by a patient who threw a computer mouse at her face, kicked, chased and threatened her, up to when the nurse found refuge in a dressing room.
She communicates it to the ASL of Bari, underlining that the patient had arrived with "a trivial wound to her finger" and she attacked the nurse only because she explained to her "that the more serious red codes take precedence over the others".
The nurse reported excoriated blunt force trauma of the lower limbs for a prognosis of 7 days.
For the director general of the ASL, Antonio Sanguedolce, it is an "unacceptable violence".
Waiting to receive the detailed report from the Di Venere Emergency Department - explains the ASL - from the first testimonies collected on the spot it emerged that the cause of the attack was the impatience of the woman who arrived altriage with a wound to her finger and therefore taken charge as green code.
The user railed against with the claim to be medicated immediately.
She kicked her then threw the computer mouse in her face.
Not happy, she chased the operator down the corridor, continuing to scream, until she was forced to find shelter in the locker room.
The woman - the ASL continues - took advantage of the absence of the security guard engaged at that moment in another department and was forcibly taken out of the triage of the emergency room, where she continued to threaten the
nurse and other doctors, creating panic and chaos throughout the ward.
"We will also check - concludes Sanguedolce - if there has been an interruption of public service and then take the necessary measures".
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