The escort to be able to work in peace and substantial and courageous interventions, which include the reorganization of care in the area to limit access to emergency rooms, the increase in beds and staff.
This is what Pierino Di Silverio, National Secretary of Anaao Assomed, requests following the umpteenth attack yesterday against a hospital doctor.
"Now it's a trickle that no one can stop - he says -. So at least give us the escort to be able to work towards militarizing the hospitals if necessary!".
Di Silverio then recalls that raids against colleagues "are now daily" and that it is "especially female colleagues who are the most targeted by attacks in the wards".
"But on the other hand, all the conditions that determine them remain, in the indifference of the institutions. We cannot practice such a delicate and demanding profession in a climate of constant fear of even entering the hospital."
"We are convinced - he continues - that education, although fundamental for that radical cultural change that serves to stop episodes of violence against those who work every day to guarantee high health standards, is not enough, because we live in a continuous state of emergency, left alone to counteract the increasingly frequent outbursts of anger on the part of patients or, worse, their relatives".
And he continues: "The serious shortage of staff and the terrible organization of work characterized by the growing worsening of the conditions in which it is carried out".
Hence the call for "substantial and courageous interventions".
"We ask - he concludes - for the reorganization of care in the area to limit access to emergency rooms, an increase in beds and staff, otherwise we will be forced to abandon hospitals".
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