“It’s hard to come to work thinking you might be attacked today”, How powerful has been the message this Friday from the more than 50 people who have gathered before him Amparo Poach Health Center of Zaragoza in support of the two nurses who were attacked last Wednesday in this clinic.
After a minute’s silence and thunderous applause, Carmen Lecina, regional vice president of CSIF Health, claimed that the health “Currently the security measures are not enough“, after learning that attacks on latrines in Aragon have skyrocketed and will reach 484 in 2022.” A verbal aggression, you go home sad and upset, but if it’s physical it can lead to serious sick leave”.
The vice president of Csif Sanidad has confirmed that this Thursday there was a technical table of aggression with health, where he was informed that A draft is being prepared with various items to assess which centers will require security measures and which ones they will be. To the union they have claimed that all clinics should have security and that there should be a guard and a security camera. “We all need and we want to be protected in our work,” Lesina said.
“It depends on the characteristics of each center”
precisely, Jose Maria Arenal, Health Manager, have joined the silent gathering this Friday to show solidarity with the workers who were attacked. “We analyze each health center and where we think it is necessary to take security measures, we put it without any doubt,” he elaborated. In this case, it could be a camera, a security guard, or even a panic button. As a general rule, not all centers will be guarded. ,Sometimes, this preventive measure we do not know what effect it has. We analyze center to center where it is placed. Recently, we conducted surveillance in Toaste. Each site has its own specialty”Arnal explained.
General characteristics of health centers that have received specific protection measures, their historical background, the number of people who pass through them… “We don’t want to stigmatize any center, so we analyze each case individually,” Health Manager he said. Furthermore, he assures that despite precautions taken, these attacks are “very difficult to avoid” in some cases. In the case of Amparo Poch, Arenal confirmed that safeguards would be studied.
With regard to the increase in attacks on toilets compared to 2021, José María Arenal blames it on the fact that health centers are now “more open”. “We analyze daily, monthly, yearly how the situation is going in each site,” has claimed.
