A hospital doctor was attacked at
Lamezia Terme in Calabria Tuesday in the latest in a string of
assaults on medical staff in Italy.
ER chief Rosarino Procopio had just explained to relatives that
a woman was OK to leave when one of the three relatives took out
a concealed cosh and hit him on the back, hospital sources said.
The local health agency said it expected a "strong response from
the authorities" while the president of the National Federation
of the Orders of Surgeons and Dentists (Fnomceo), Filippo
Anelli, said "we're fed up with solidarity, we want checks to be
made and citizens prevented from entering health facilities with
weapons".
On October 14 an ER nurse in the hospital of Agordo
near Belluno was punched by a patient after she refused to give
her methadone in the latest of the series of acts of violence
against healthcare personnel in Italy.
In September the government upped jail time for people attacking
medical staff to a maximum of five years as part of a new decree
approved by the cabinet to address the wave of assaults on
doctors
and other hospital personnel throughout the country.
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