“Each Emergency Department should have a violence referent“. This was announced by the Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Marisol Touraine, at the launch of the training of referees against violence against women, on June 27, 2016. These referral emergency physicians are 539 and are spread over the entire territory. Their role is to “raise awareness and train“their colleagues and allow”better overall care“Women victims of violence, explained the Minister. Indeed, women victims of domestic violence often call for help in an emergency context, either by calling the Samu or the fire brigade, or by going to the Emergency Department. The list of “violence” referents is available on the site stop-violences-femmes.gouv.fr.
Ask the question that will allow the woman to confide
To best prepare emergency physicians for helping women victims of violence, the Minister of Health distributed to these referees “support kits“Containing memos, explanatory notes and documentation on the subject. Doctors believe they do not always know”how to ask questions that do not brutalize more, even though the woman in front of them is waiting for this click, this sentence, this question which will allow her to express herself“.
200,000 women victims of violence each year in France
Each year, more than 200,000 women are victims of domestic, physical or sexual violence. “Those violence is a major public health issue“recalled Marisol Touraine. Indeed, in France, a woman dies under the blows of her companion every three days and the women victims of violence lose between one and four years of life in good health, according to the World Organization of the health (WHO).
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