A woman attacked a doctor and the rest of the health personnel who were in a room of the General Pacheco Hospital, in Tigre’s party, because he wanted his sister to be given priority.
The scene, which occurred minutes before New Years, it was completely filmed in a video in which you can see how the woman insistently demanded that the surgeon on duty check her sister. Faced with the refusal of the specialist, who explains in a calm voice that before she had to attend to other patients, the woman questions the professional. “Why don’t you put yourself in his shoes a bit and see what he’s got?” He says.
At that moment, the woman maintains that she is not disrespecting the doctors present, however the situation begins to rise in tone. In the middle of the discussion, the doctor demands respect from her and says firmly: “I am the surgeon on duty and I am the one who decides.” At that moment, something ends up triggering the patience of the woman who throws a punch at the surgeon and the doctor who was by her side.
The screams of a patient who claims to be recently operated alert other professionals who come to assist the situation. “Enough! Please! I’m operated on!”, The woman filming the video shouts desperately.
Finally, between several nurses They manage to reduce the aggressor while another patient with a serum collaborates to get the woman out of the room.
In addition to the daily sacrifice that health professionals make in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, in many cases they must face attacks and mistreatment by patients.
The authorities of the General Hospital of the Buenos Aires town of Pacheco they ratified the complaint in the last hours on the attacks that a doctor of the establishment received by the sister of a patient, which, they specified, they were repeated at the police headquarters.
“The issue did not end with what was observed in the video that was made public, but also in Police Station 1 of Pacheco, where the aggressions were repeated, This forced us to ratify the complaint and also, for operational reasons, the aggressor’s sister was transferred to another hospital, ”Diego Morera, director of the General Hospital of Pacheco, told Télam today.
In dialogue with Télam he added: “The pandemic has a bad effect on all of us; We urge people to get vaccinated, to be tolerant. There is a lot of anguish, in this hospital three nurses died at this time, people did not take vacations or did so for only a few days, and they always act persuasively, seeking to calm down ”.
Last week a doctor in charge of the Emergency Febrile Unit (UFU) of the Francisco Santojanni Donation Hospital, of the Buenos Aires health system, was also beaten by a patient, in the context of long lines to get swabs. The event led to a measure of force by the Association of Municipal Doctors (AMM) of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, which decided to suspend care in the 20 UFU until the safety of health professionals is guaranteed.
In the past week, the brutal assault on a doctor in charge of the Febrile Emergency Unit (UFU) of the Francisco Santojanni Donation Hospital, when there were long queues to get swabs, It led to a measure of force by the Association of Municipal Doctors (AMM) of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, which decided to suspend care in the 20 UFU until the safety of health professionals is guaranteed.