Two nurses on duty in the emergency room of the Di Venere hospital attacked by a woman waiting for her son to be discharged. It happened yesterday afternoon, Wednesday 25 April. The episode was made known by the Bari Local Health Authority, which expresses “total closeness and solidarity with the healthcare workers who were victims of the attack and firmly condemns yet another gesture perpetrated against the staff in the exercise of their duties and to the detriment of the community, as it causes the interruption of a public service”.
The health workers reported a prognosis of 10 and 15 days, after having been physically attacked by the woman: according to what has been reconstructed, the wait would have been prolonged – explains the Local Health Authority – due to the simultaneous arrival of red codes which occupied the staff of the Emergency room. The State Police was promptly alerted and intervened on the scene with a patrol car.
The Bari Local Health Authority, as in previous episodes, announces that it will be alongside the operators by making its legal office available to them. At the same time, the health company stigmatizes “a certain “malpractice” according to which waiting in the emergency room, often at the origin of unpleasant episodes, would be a simple waste of time instead of the necessary clinical fulfillment connected to the general priority of cases It is not superfluous to remember that Legislative Decree no. 31 of 19 March 2024 came into force on 4 April, pursuant to which legal action can also be taken in the case of personal injuries to healthcare professionals, regardless of the severity of the injury. , mild, serious or very serious and by the victim’s willingness to file a complaint”. Furthermore, the ASL recalls, “the law which has strengthened the fight against episodes of violence for injuries caused to personnel carrying out a healthcare profession in the exercise or due to the functions or service has already been in force for a year: this type of aggression in fact, it can lead to imprisonment from two to five years, which can be increased to ten if the injuries are “serious” and up to sixteen if “very serious””.
