Medical staff from the Southern Granada Health Management Area, gathered at the doors of the Centro de Salud Motril Centro to express their “total rejection and absolute condemnation” of the attacks on medical staff last week.

The latest attack was against a nurse and a female G.P. at the said Motril Centro de Salud. The incident took place on July the 9th, in a doctor’s surgery. The aggressor, who was being treated, first shouted at and insulted the G.P. treating him, and subsequently physically assaulted the nurse who attempted to calm him down.

The protest outside the clinic was convoked as support for the affected medical staff and to show an energetic rejection of violence against staff members.

People who attack medical staff is on a par with attacking a police officer and culprits can face prison sentences of up to four years, fines, restraining orders, and compensation payments.

In the province of Granada, the number of assaults last year rose to 201 (51 physical and 150 non-physical).

Editorial comment: personally, anybody who attacks a doctor or a nurse should be denied access to public health care and should there have to fork out for private-health care.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)

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