□ Cao Yanlin
Recently, in a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei Province, there was a case of injury to a doctor. The parent of the child, Zhang Mou, slashed the doctor Peng Mou with a knife.
After the incident, the public security organs quickly dispatched the police to control Zhang, but fortunately the injured were not life-threatening.
At present, Zhang has been criminally detained in accordance with the law, and the case is being further processed.
In recent years, doctors whose mission is to save lives and heal the wounded have frequently become victims, which deeply hurts people's hearts.
The author believes that while severely condemning the wounded doctors, it is more necessary to think deeply about how to protect the life safety of medical staff.
my country's Basic Medical Care and Health Promotion Law, Physician Law and other laws and regulations have clearly stipulated the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of medical personnel and the establishment of a legal environment that respects medical care and health care. The dignity of health personnel.
However, even if the law clearly stipulates the protection of the life safety of medical staff, medical injury incidents still occur from time to time. The safety management system is related to the safety risk prevention awareness of medical staff.
The complexity and particularity of medicine determine that medical risks can only be reduced as much as possible, and cannot be completely avoided.
Therefore, in the author's opinion, medical institutions should establish a compulsory security inspection system to strengthen safety management, minimize the risk of injury to doctors, and prevent the occurrence of violent injuries to doctors.
In fact, the mandatory security inspection has a legal basis and also meets the relevant requirements.
The Basic Medical Health and Health Promotion Law clearly stipulates that the practice place of a medical and health institution is a public place that provides medical and health services, and no organization or individual may disturb its order.
In 2021, eight departments including the National Health and Health Commission will issue the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Management of Hospital Safety Order" to maintain normal medical order and protect the personal safety of medical staff, proposing that public security organs should use tertiary hospitals and qualified secondary hospitals. Set up a police office with necessary police force; large hospitals with an average daily outpatient volume of more than 5,000 or more than 1,000 beds should implement security checks at the main entrances and exits to prevent personnel from bringing knives, explosives, and dangerous items into the hospital.
Taking Beijing as an example, in order to strengthen hospital safety management and maintain hospital safety order, the "Beijing Hospital Safety Order Management Regulations" clearly stipulates that hospitals should establish a safety inspection system, and conduct safety inspections at the entrance of the hospital or at the entrance of key areas as needed. Restricted items from entering the hospital; the hospital has the right to refuse entry to those who refuse to accept the security inspection.
The regulation will come into effect on July 1, 2020. By the end of 2021, nearly 300 hospitals in Beijing have carried out security inspections, of which the third-level hospitals have achieved full coverage, and a total of more than 7,000 prohibited and restricted items have been detected. More effectively prevent the occurrence of violent medical injury cases.
Tao Yong, a Beijing doctor who was seriously injured by a patient's stabbing with a knife, has also publicly called on the hospital to implement mandatory security checks many times.
Indeed, security inspections can detect potential personnel and tools for violent injury to doctors, isolate the tools of crime from the hospital, and play a role in early warning and preventing injuries to doctors to a certain extent.
In the incident of violent injury to a doctor in Wuhan, the suspect Zhang slashed the doctor Peng with a knife.
It is understood that the hospital has not implemented a mandatory security inspection system.
If the mandatory security check is implemented, I am afraid that the tools for committing the crime will not be brought into the hospital, and Zhang will not be able to cut the doctor involved.
Therefore, the author proposes to promote the practice of Beijing, and implement a compulsory security inspection system in hospitals above a certain scale to prevent the occurrence of violent injuries to doctors.
Respecting doctors and protecting health is the basic moral consensus of society. Violent injury to doctors is a violation of moral dignity and the bottom line of the law, and should be condemned and punished by law.
To curb violence against doctors, it is necessary to build a harmonious relationship between doctors and patients, strengthen hospital safety management, and build diversified ways to prevent and deal with medical disputes. It also requires government departments, medical institutions, news media, industry organizations, medical staff, and the majority of patients Be involved together.
On the basis of the formation of social consensus, supplemented by technical improvements such as the compulsory security inspection system in hospitals, the occurrence of violent injuries to doctors can be effectively curbed to a certain extent.
(The author is the director of the Medical and Health Law Research Office of the Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and the deputy director of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Society of Health Law)