In Buhl in the Bas-Rhin, a 57-year-old man stabbed his nurse three times on Tuesday morning at his home. She was hospitalized urgently.
It is an assault that outraged even the highest authorities, a nurse was seriously injured with a stab by her patient to whom she was going to provide care.
The attack occurred early Wednesday morning in the small Alsatian town of Buhl (Haut-Rhin). The healthcare professional was stabbed three times in the chest and left hand according to a report from the Bas-Rhin Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (CODIS 67).
The victim in absolute urgency
The man would then have taken refuge in his apartment. But he was arrested later, around 9 a.m., by the gendarmes of the company from Wissembourg (Bas-Rhin). During his arrest, a gendarme injured his wrist when opening the door, but he was treated on the spot. The alleged perpetrator is said to be suffering from schizophrenia.
The victim was evacuated in absolute urgency, indicates the CODIS 67, by helicopter to the Hautepierre hospital, located in a district of Strasbourg.
Marisol Touraine reacts
In a press release published late yesterday evening, Marisol Touraine, Minister of Health, testified to him by condemning “these facts of rare violence” and by saluting “the exemplary work accomplished every day by nurses at service to their patients, in sometimes difficult conditions ”. A statement that echoes a malaise in the profession.
Priority n ° 1: fight against violence
The 600,000 nurses practicing in France were recently invited to respond to a major consultation with their Order. The idea, submit their proposals in view of the presidential elections, and for the coming five-year term. For 96% of the profession, the first priority concerns the violence they suffer on a daily basis.
As a measure, the Order wants the police, justice and health establishments to act accordingly (“zero tolerance”) and claim the allocation of credits. The Organization wants them to be dedicated in particular to setting up connected alarm systems and to a preventive training plan for all nurses who come to patients’ homes.
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