While intoxicated, a patient allegedly injured an emergency nurse in Meaux. The man was taken into custody
During the night from Saturday to Sunday, a nurse was attacked by a drunken man at the Meaux CHU. The man in his thirties had been brought by firefighters to the emergency department.
The facts took place around 4:20 am. While the caregiver was providing care to him. The patient “grabbed her violently and injured her wrist,” said a police source. Unknown to the police, he was arrested and taken into custody.
This aggression is unfortunately not a unique case. At the end of June, a 44-year-old man stabbed 3 people who were waiting in the emergency room of a hospital in Seine-Saint-Denis. His act would have been motivated by “a bad look”.
A plan of 75 million euros
Nurses and doctors are increasingly the targets of this type of assault. In its annual report published in August 2016, the National Observatory of Violence in the Health Environment (ONVS) had identified for the year 2014 some 18,000 declared victims, ie “one hospital victim every 30 minutes”. In 2015, more than 80 reports were made by nurses.
Exhausted, caregivers have mobilized several times over the past few months. In October 2016, a plan of 75 million euros over 3 years was presented. Its objective: to strengthen safety within healthcare establishments.
But hospitals are not the only places affected by this violence. The recent assault on a general practitioner in the North has caused a stir. A petition has even been launched to demand resources and to ensure the safety of patients and doctors.
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