There are 85 acts of violence reported by the Regions against doctors and healthcare workers in 2022, up on 2021 when there were 60.
These are the data of the sentinel events that the Ministry of Health collects through the SIMES, an information system for monitoring errors in healthcare.
It is, the ministry underlines, a first survey, provisional and in the process of being implemented.
Tomorrow Minister Orazio Schillaci will meet the National Security Observatory to study the data and the different aspects of the phenomenon.
In 2022 Puglia and Sicily are in the lead with 20 events each reported.
A mapping that provides information on where there is an urgency to step up surveillance.
Emergency medicine and psychiatry centers are among the places in the health sector most affected.
In the ranking of reports received, after Puglia and Sicily, Tuscany is second with 8 episodes of violence against health care workers reported last year.
Followed by Campania and Piedmont with 7, Lombardy with 6, Calabria 5, Marche 4, Elimia Romagna, Abruzzo and Sardinia 2, Umbria and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano with 1 reported act of violence.
Waiting for the data from Lazio.
The regional ranking is drawn up on the basis of the data currently available on the Simes.
To get an even more complete picture, the Ministry of Health has asked the Regions to verify and update the data, or communicate from scratch in the event of failure to include, the reports of episodes of violence.