A general hospital in Menoufia Governorate (Northern Egypt) witnessed an attack on a medical staff that angered the Egyptians. The attack was documented in a video clip that was widely circulated on social media.

The events of the incident began with the arrival of the wife of an army officer - accompanied by her husband - in her third month of pregnancy to the hospital's emergency department.

The husband and his family did nothing but attack the nursing staff because of their dissatisfaction with the doctors' unpreparedness. The husband and a number of his companions beat the nurses and hospital workers, which resulted in a nurse's miscarriage and the injury of 5 of her colleagues and 3 workers.

The attackers justified what they did by not caring for the nursing staff about the condition of the patient, who was bleeding, and deliberately delaying her assistance.

For his part, the Egyptian Minister of Health, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, expressed his dissatisfaction with the incident and visited the hospital to meet the assaulted crew members.

The minister stressed that transgression against medical teams and workers in health facilities, while performing their work duties, is completely unacceptable and will not be allowed, as the state preserves the rights of its children.

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As for the tweeters on social media, they were angered by this attack and saw it as insulting to humanity, as mentioned in the Shabakat program (4/12/2022), where the activist Hassan Daoud wrote, "The incident of the pilot and his family assaulting the Quesna hospital nursing staff is a scene degrading to humanity, and continuous brutality." For any authority holder, and a continuation of the disgraceful saying: You don't know who I am!!

Others demanded the necessity of police intervention and the establishment of a special section in hospitals, as tweeter Wajdi Ghanem said: "What a mess, how can government employees be assaulted at their workplace, the police must intervene."

Mustafa Gawish said: "It is very important for the Ministry of Interior to establish a qualitative health police department, and it has branches within all public health facilities and places of concentration to serve hospitals and private clinics, similar to the transportation police, the utility police, and other qualitative and specialized police, to confront what is happening in terms of aggression." ".

Activist Bassem praised the intervention of the armed forces, writing, "After the incident, the armed forces took action. They did not cover up or ignore it. Therefore, it has a special place in our hearts."

And because the officer who appeared in the video belongs to the armed forces, its spokesperson commented: "The armed forces are closely following what has been raised about the Quesna Central Hospital incident. It affirms its full respect for the principle of the rule of law. It calls upon everyone to investigate accuracy and wait until the investigations are completed."

It is noteworthy that studies estimate the health sector’s need for doctors in proportion to the population, at about 23 doctors per 10,000 people, while the percentage of doctors in Egypt is 6-8 doctors per 10,000 people.