• Doctor attacked in Acireale. Minister Grillo: the situation is getting heavy

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August 22, 2019 A surgeon was beaten last night in Naples while he was carrying out first aid counseling at the San Giovanni Bosco hospital. The victim, a woman, due to the violence suffered will have a convalescence of at least 30 days for a facial trauma. To attack it would have been some women who had entered the emergency room bypassing the prohibitions. "The attack of this night is a vile and unworthy gesture. I heard the doctor and I personally guaranteed that the company is and will be by her side even in court. Nothing can justify what happened, a fact that beyond physical and emotional trauma caused, puts assistance at risk ", commented the general manager of the Asl Napoli 1 Centro Ciro Verdoliva.

"Those who attacked the doctor - added Verdoliva - attacked each doctor, each nurse and operator of the ASL Napoli 1 Centro, but above all he removed from other patients the right to be assisted. If someone still believes he can lay down the law to the San Giovanni Bosco or being able to ignore the provisions dictated by the general management is wrong, "Verdoliva always says." The general management of the ASL "has already started an internal verification aimed at reconstructing what happened".

CoAs Medici, ensuring fair protection
We want to send our full ethical solidarity to the doctor attacked yesterday inside the emergency room of the San Giovanni Bosco hospital in Naples. It is not acceptable that doctors should add fear for their safety to the long list of problems that they live daily in place of work ". This is stated by Alessandro Garau, national secretary of the CoAS union management doctors." The CoAS has always asked that doctors be guaranteed the right protections to be able to carry out their work safely. However, it seems that the most basic guarantees continue to be lacking. Among the violence, the objectively difficult logistic and local situations, exhausting shifts and the work stress to which our doctors are subjected, we must not then be surprised if in growing numbers they decide to go abroad to work. Whenever a doctor is attacked, it is the whole already fragile SSN that suffers a further vulnus. We want to send our colleague - Garau concludes - our support and our solidarity, in the hope that she can recover physically and psychologically from the unpleasant aggression she has suffered "