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Victims of violence against medical staff say: "He pulled out a knife, I was sure I would not see the family" - Walla! news

2022-06-16T10:45:47.426Z


Hundreds of medics are protesting against the violence against them, against the backdrop of the strike in which thousands have begun. Since the beginning of the year, there have been hundreds of cases of physical and verbal assault against medical staff. A doctor and a nurse who were victims of violence told Walla !: "He pinned me to the wall and shouted: Now you are examining me"


Victims of violence against medical staff say: "He pulled out a knife, I was sure I would not see the family"

Hundreds of medics are protesting against the violence against them, against the backdrop of the strike in which thousands have begun.

Since the beginning of the year, there have been hundreds of cases of physical and verbal assault against medical staff.

A doctor and a nurse who were victims of violence told Walla !: "He pinned me to the wall and shouted: Now you are examining me"

Meirav Cohen

16/06/2022

Thursday, 16 June 2022, 13:11 Updated: 13:36

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In the video: Medical teams strike in protest of the violence against them, Assuta Hospital Ashdod (Photo: Assuta Hospital, Ashdod)

Thousands of medical teams went on strike today (Thursday) in protest of the violence being perpetrated against patients.

At the same time, hundreds of doctors, brothers and sisters, are demonstrating at Assuta Hospital in Ashdod and Rambam Hospital in Haifa at the moment - and a major respite is expected at Azrieli Junction at 5:00 PM



. Two of them, a doctor and a nurse who were victims of violence, told Walla! About personal cases they had experienced and called on the government to act urgently to treat the epidemic.

"One blow and in intensive care"

"I have been in the profession for 19 years and I care about being a good doctor, but we must also understand that we are human beings. The ability to humiliate that can be achieved is impossible," shared Dr. Evelyn Dagan, a family doctor at the National Health Fund in Tel Aviv. The reception to the nurses and doctors. "



Dr. Dagan described severe cases of violence that included threats with a knife she had experienced in the past, which she describes as a" terrible experience. "

"About seven years ago a sturdy guy with a stressful appearance came into the clinic. He had a psychiatric background, and I see written not to give him drugs. He leans forward on me and pulls out a Japanese knife under the table. I gave him the prescription and then I called police who took him into custody. I remember "At this event and remember that at that moment I just thought I would not see my daughters again. It is a crossroads in life that you always come back to," she shared.

Demonstration at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, today (Photo: Official website, Rambam)

Dr. Dagan (Photo: Official website, courtesy of the photographer)

"The second case was a year ago. I called the next queue and he did not come in, I went out and checked what was happening, I asked him why he did not come in and he did not answer me and did not come in. I went to make coffee and continued the work because he did not come in. I finished the day and went home. He called the call center and started threatening me in front of the call center, he cursed at me and told her 'one blow and she is in intensive care'. I heard the recording and could not believe it was happening to me. The branch manager and the police wrapped me up and tried to calm me ", She said.

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Demonstration by medical staff at Assuta Hospital.

Today (Photo: Courtesy of those photographed, Assuta Hospital Ashdod)

Dr. Dagan called on the government to "give back" to the medical staffs.

The service stops when you are told 'come on come on'.

"Everyone needs to understand that the staffs do a lot for the patients, we are giving at least 100%, sometimes more than that."

"If security had not come he would have killed me"

Reut Velder (Photo: Official website, courtesy of the photographer)

Reut Velder, an emergency nurse at Kaplan Hospital, said: "About a year ago I was a nurse in the emergency room. I called the next person in line and a man came in accompanied by his father. Or what's not good and he said 'I do not know, I do not want to say, you do not want to check me do not have to.' Took the sheet and left, something in my intuition felt not good in front of me. "Rarely, in this case, it felt really unusual to me, so I called for security."



"I was sitting in the room writing a sheet and suddenly he came to the room and kicked the door and managed to get it out of place, he pinned me to the wall and walked over to me: 'Now you check me,' he said. At that moment I could not believe it was happening to me. If they had not come, he would have killed me. "



"We have a distress button, but it's ridiculous because whoever's forced to press a distress button. You just call instead. They asked me if I wanted to file a complaint with the police, but I felt it was worthless because things were closing with nothing. The policeman told me he was selling to them, and after a few months I received a letter that the case was closed for lack of evidence. And it's just awful because there were enough witnesses in this case and they would not ask them at all. "Chances are it would have ended with nothing. In the end when you are scared you care less well and the events stick and escalate with each other. When you knock on the door hard I still jump out of the chair."

"I want us to get equality with other public servants, so that if someone threatens it will be severely punished and arrested. And give security officials more powers, and you can not wait for the police for everything. They are terribly afraid to intervene unless there is real violence and more room for maneuver. ".



According to the Ministry of Health, there has been a 33% increase in cases of violence in the first half of 2022. Also, since the beginning of the year, there have been 112 cases of assault and physical violence against medical staff, and 1,675 cases of verbal violence, threats or property damage

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