October 5, 2016.
The Ministry of Health has announced an investment plan of 75 million euros for the safety of hospitals. Terrorist threats and the many cases of violence against hospital staff are in the sights of Marisol Touraine.
75 million over three years for hospital safety
Hospital safety was at the heart of a meeting chaired by the Minister of Health on Monday, October 3. Marisol Touraine has announced that an investment plan of 75 million euros, over three years, will be put in place now to mitigate the various threats hanging over the hospital world.
During this meeting, representatives of public and private healthcare establishments, the minister expressed her commitment to combat terrorist threats but also situations of violence to which members of the staff of French hospitals may be victims. The assault, in mid-September, of a doctor in the emergency department of a hospital in Saint-Denis illustrates this danger.
A hospital victim of violence every 30 minutes
The 75 million euros released should be used to equip hospitals with video surveillance equipment. They will also make it possible to launch projects to secure access within the premises. ” Mobile ‘Vigipirate, Sentinel’ patrols will be deployed on the most sensitive sites “, Also indicated the ministry in a press release. Particular attention will also be paid to establishments that will receive victims in the event of an attack., and this in order to avoid an over-attack.
These reforms should make it possible to reduce the number of cases of violence in hospitals. In 2014, this violence claimed 18,000 victims. That year, according to the National Observatory of Hospital Violence, a hospital staff was the victim of an act of violence every 30 minutes.
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