The hospital violence ceases to be an isolated fact and is presented as a silent emergency of the dominican health systemreporting attacks on doctorsfights between patients, threats to staff and health centers converted into conflict scenarios.
In recent days, various episodes of violence in hospitals Dominicans, the most recent being an attack on a security agent last Friday the 6th, in the Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospitalan action that went viral through a video on social networks.
According to the health center, a patient who received care in the Dialysis Unit He presented complications related to his health condition and died. Upon finding out, two relatives went to the Nursing station, demanding answers.
The conversation escalated to the point where two ladies were seen visibly upset, who They attacked the agent when he was going to lead them towards the exit.
In that same sense, on February 2, an alleged criminal would have gone up to the second floor of the Salvador B. Gautier Hospitalwhere he assaulted a resident doctor while she was evaluating a patient, punching her in the face before fleeing with her belongings.
Meanwhile, on January 27, the Dominican Medical College (CMD) spoke out against the arrest of pediatrician Cristian Díaz, at the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital, after the mother of a patient accused him of physical assault, a case that was taken to the Prosecutor’s Office.
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These examples have revived the debate about the need to reinforce security in hospitals, particularly in sensitive areas such as Emergency and public service.
He CMD is pronounced
“A doctor cannot go to work thinking that he will be robbed, beaten or falsely accused. We will not tolerate any more attacks,” he warned. Luis Pena Nunezpresident of CMD.
“It is essential that health centers have security personnel properly trained and trained. “We reject the practice of using untrained citizens for surveillance, as it is an inadequate and risky measure that exposes the lives of doctors and patients,” added the doctor. Máximo Martínez Báezpresident of the Regional of the National District.
Strengthening plan
In January 2023, the National Health Service (SNS), directed at that time by Mario Lama, developed a improvement plan at the national level to strengthen the hospital securitywhich included personnel designation, implementation of electronic security and updating of the Physical Security Action Guide for Health Establishments.
During the year 2024, the SNS integrated 1,419 new supervisors and guards in hospitals and First Level Centers (CPN), belonging to the Armed forces and the National Policewithin these 189 are pensioners and civilians, previously trained to perform security functions in hospitals.
Bill
The Chamber of Deputies has in its hands a piece of legislation that seeks stop violence in hospitals and that proposes punishing with sentences of up to seven years in prison those who physically or verbally attack doctors, nurses and administrative and security personnel of hospitals in the full exercise of their duties.
