The medical staffs at Rambam, nurses and doctors, gathered this morning (Sunday) before a protest rally near the hospital's emergency department.
Recall, when the staff entered the room to treat the patient, he was attacked by family members.
The team fled the room and called security guards and the hospital policeman who were also attacked.
At the protest rally, the chairman of the Rambam Medical Committee, Prof. Yehuda Ullman, said that the doctor who was attacked expressed fear for his life to the point that he was afraid to travel back to his home at night at the end of the shift.
The nurses also spoke of a deep sense of fear.
Nur Ibrahim, one of the nurses who was attacked at night in the hospital room, told of the shock she felt when she was attacked inside a hospital room while trying to reach out to a patient.
Police arrested a resident of Umm al-Fahm and two others
Yesterday, the police arrested a resident of Umm al-Fahm and detained two others, on suspicion of assaulting a medical staff at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.
The investigation was opened upon receipt of the report at Hotline 100. The assault occurred by a patient's family following his death at the hospital earlier.
The assailants did not need medical attention.
The attack on Rambam: Photo from the body camera of one of the security guards // Photo: Body camera of one of the security guards
Haifa police officers and YSM fighters who arrived at the scene arrested the suspect, a resident of Umm al-Fahm in his 20s, and detained two other family members, a man and a woman in their 40s, for questioning at the city police station.
Depending on the development of the investigation and its findings, the police will decide whether to request an extension of the suspects' detention in the Magistrate's Court in Haifa tomorrow.
Maimonides responded: "The incident began in the evening. A patient hospitalized at the Oncology Institute began to bleed and the family called the medical and nursing staff. The doctor and nurses who came to the room were attacked for no apparent reason by the family, who did not allow them to treat the patient. "The staff was forced to leave the room without treating the patient, security guards and a hospital policeman who were called to the scene were also attacked. Unfortunately, at the end of the incident, the patient, 64, a resident of Wadi Ara, was pronounced dead."
Data from the Ministry of Health on cases of violence in government hospitals show that by 2021, by the end of October, there were 4,631 riots in hospitals - about 15 incidents a day.
In 2020, 5,300 events occurred.
252 of the cases in 2021 included physical violence, 115 incidents of threats and 121 cases of verbal violence or damage to property, and a total of 488 incidents.
In 2020, there were 306 incidents of physical violence, 128 threats and 225 cases of verbal violence or damage to property, and a total of 659 violent incidents.
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