Naples, Roma camp in Scampia: 118 team attacked

Last Sunday at 6.41pm the station Scampia of 118 is alerted for a code yellow. This is a patient in ethyl state, heart disease which he reports chest pain inside the Roma camp in Viale della Resistenza.

«The ambulance arrives, but the colleagues – he says Manuel Ruggierodoctor who takes care of the Facebook page Hands off Hippocrates – are verbally and physically attacked. The nurse who came in first to assess the patient’s vital signs was dealt with badly accused without any reason by a relative of the patient of wanting to waste time”.

The patient was loaded onto the stretcher by his fellow citizens always under threat and the rescue team forced to transport the patient to the emergency room Cardarelli by ethyl state e backache.

«When we arrived at Cardarelli – say the unfortunate protagonists – we realized that we had also been robbed of an oxygen tank». The police, alerted by radio, have identified the attackers and collected the declaration of the health workers attacked.

«It’s not the first time we health workers have come attacked and robbed within that Roma camp – he explains Manuel Ruggiero – we are tired of being treated badly and being threatened every time. We ask for the support of the police for all interventions in the Roma camps, in particular in that of Scampia.” Sunday’s attack is the 18th attack of 2024 recorded in ASL Naples 1 and there are 32 in total between Naples 1 and Naples 2 from the beginning of 2024.

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