On Friday, a doctor was stabbed with a Swiss knife by a patient at the North Hospital in Marseille. The Sud Santé union is calling for strong measures.
“It is time for the safety of caregivers to become an absolute priority,” demands Sud Santé, which expressed in a press release “its total support for the medical community and all paramedical professionals who, every day, are confronted with increasing violence” after the attack yesterday afternoon on a doctor from CAP 72 in the emergency room of the Nord Hospital.
As the union recalls, “during a medical evaluation carried out by a doctor accompanied by two caregivers from CAP 72, a patient injured the doctor with a Swiss army knife, inflicting two blows on his shoulder. Following this incident, the doctor, quickly attended to by the emergency team, received the necessary treatment, including stitches. His condition is now stable, but he remains in shock.
“Prevent such incidents from happening again”
For Sud Santé “this dramatic event highlights the urgent need to strengthen the safety of caregivers and patients”. The union “calls on management to take concrete measures to prevent such incidents from happening again” and demands: “A work bonus in difficult territory, a strengthening of security measures and the creation of a local observatory of violence in health environment in order to objectify this reality and develop concrete proposals that are as close as possible to the concerns of teams on the ground. The objective is to better understand the violence suffered by caregivers and to put in place appropriate solutions.
