Chaos yesterday in the emergency room of the “Nicola Giannettasio” hospital in Rossano where there was a new attempt at attack against the damage to the health workers on duty.
From how it was learned during the first reconstructions, a 46 -year -old man, originally from Terravecchia, in recent days he had gone to the hospital for a specialist visit to the otolaryngology department. Yesterday morning instead he showed up in the emergency room demanding further clinical investigations. Although both the nurses and the doctors on duty explained in detail why those non -urgent performances were not paid by the emergency room (he was reported that booking through the Cup was necessary), the forty -six year old suddenly went out. The man began to raise his voice and have a threatening behavior. Then he tried to physically lash out against the health workers. His action was promptly blocked by one of the nurses, while the security guard on duty, to hear that hustle and bustle, rushed by blocking the patient; Which continued to bewilding, thorough kicks and punches, also falling a present monitor and scratching the supervisory agent to the face.
A critical situation that could degenerate further. While the man had been blocked, the provincial police officers of the provincial police who for some time has been open in the garrison of the Nicola Giannettasio hospital have also been called to intervene. The man was thus immobilized and brought to the provincial police premises located at the entrance. Now the legal results are expected regarding his behavior.
The episode that was recorded yesterday, meanwhile, once again opens the debate on the safety of doctors and health personnel engaged in the workplace. Every day, especially in what is now the “trenches” of the emergency room, often live situations of danger in a context in which the health workers work under organic and in perennial worries. Before this attempt, the last aggression, in order of time, dates back to last May in the emergency room of the Corigliano hospital, when even a relative of a patient had thrown himself against the doctor and nurse for the wait to which they were subjected. But it is not the first time that there is scenes worthy of the Far West, with scratched patients who in the past have also literally destroyed the premises with the consequent interruption of health services. Without forgetting some episodes in which doctors and nurses were seriously injured, after violent attacks.
