2023-08-16 10:00:00
A pregnant doctor has been attacked in the ER of the Hospital Clínico de Málaga by the relative of a patient, who, apparently, he threw the doctor to the ground. This has been pointed out by the Málaga Medical Union (SMM) in a statement, in which they have criticized that the attacks “continue to be a constant and harsh reality in health centers and hospitals in the province of Málaga, especially in this summer”.
Specifically, the events occurred last Monday, August 14, in the area of the Emergency Service of the Clinical Hospital. Thus, one of the three relatives who accompanied a patient pending his evolution, “when there only had to be one relative as it was thus stipulated and, therefore, entry control system failed“Considering not agreeing with the assessment and decisions of the doctor who had treated them, he pushed her and threw her to the ground, despite it being clear that the doctor is pregnant.
In addition, the husband of the victim, also a doctor, tried to calm the situation and he avoided a punch to his wife by grabbing the assailant, “together with the only two security guards available to the hospital”; while “another ten companions of the user, who were outside the premises they went in to start a fighta whole mess in the access control to the hospital, and generating a despicable and inappropriate moment for a space like this, which culminated in the escape of the cowardly attackers”.
According to the union statement, the optionalwho is well, within the seriousness of the attack has reported the incident to the police.
Strengthen the security of the hospital center
The Málaga Medical Union (SMM) has criticized “this new and execrable aggression” and has demanded that the management of the Virgen de la Victoria Hospital “if it does not have its own capacity and the financial means to improve and preserve security of all the professionals in your center, immediately request help from the Police or the health authorities, accomplices in this negligence that has been taking place for years”.
A panorama, they have added, “that carries with it a willful discrimination with respect to other hospitals in the provincethat they do have better and more effective security measures, which this union has been demanding for a long time”.
For their part, the Hospital management have once once more expressed “the most absolute rejection for this type of totally unjustified behavior and that affects our professionals, as well as the rest of the users who come to be treated at our hospital with a civic and respectful attitude”. Likewise, the managing director of the center has contacted each and every one of the professionals attacked to know first-hand its status.
It should be remembered that the Virgen de la Victoria University Clinical Hospital has reinforced during this week of Fair 2023 the number of security guards for the control of access and traffic in the Emergency Service, which these days assumes the health coverage of this massive event, as a reference center for Cortijo de Torres, the venue where the real fair of our city is located.
Likewise, as indicated in a statement, the objective of this measure by the management department, in coordination with the economic department and the security company, is to increase the presence of vigilant professionals in this busy area for avoid conflicting situationssince during these days attentions for alcohol poisoning, traumatisms, etc. increase.
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