The authorities of the General Hospital of the Buenos Aires town of Pacheco ratified in the last hours the complaint about the assaults received by a doctor from the establishment 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 the Police Station 1 of Pacheco, where the attacks were repeated, which forced us to ratify the complaint and also, for operational reasons, the assailant’s sister was transferred to another hospital, “Diego Morera, director of the General Hospital of Pacheco, told Télam this Sunday.
The event occurred when a woman, a relative of a patient, he punched a female doctor, a surgeon on duty, because she did not give priority to the care of a sister.
⚠️ SCREAMS AND HITS IN THE GUARD
‼ ️A woman attacked a doctor and the rest of the team at the General Pacheco Hospital, Tigre, because she wanted her sister to be given priority.
? It happened to New Year’s minutes and was recorded by the camera of a recently operated patient. pic.twitter.com/IU9wat7RCo
– Chronicle Newspaper (@cronica) January 2, 2022
The person in charge of the area tried to explain to him that he had to wait his turn, that heI had other priorities, until she was attacked by the patient’s sister.
The aggressor was controlled by other members of the hospital’s health personnel, to the desperate cries of other inmates, including a woman, who managed to film what was happening with her cell phone.
Morera added to Télam that “the pandemic has us all bad; 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 Febrile Emergency Unit (UFU) of the Francisco Santojanni Donation Hospital was also beaten. of the Buenos Aires health system, by a patient, in the context of long queues 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.
