It was in a medical centre within the Chana space of town of Granada {that a} affected person grabbed a physician by the throat and started to throttle him.

Happily, a safety guard noticed what was taking place and restrained the aggressor till the Policía Nacional arrived to take him away. The sufferer was attended to by his fellow workers members however got here away from it with a really purple neck and respiratory difficulties.

Though the 50-year-old aggressor had been attended to on the medical centre on a number of events, he had by no means been violent nor verbally aggressive earlier than.

Naturally, the workers on the medical centre will not be impressed and have been protesting in entrance of the constructing. The consultant of the employees union, the CCOO, stated that if sufferers have complaints, they need to fill in a criticism type and never fill in members of workers – or phrases to that impact.

Based on info facilitated by the Consejería de Salud y Familias, final yr there have been 124 assaults in opposition to public, medical workers simply within the province of Granada. These vary from bodily assaults to verbal ones. Actually, 95 of them had been verbal assaults within the type of insults and threats, the remaining had been precise bodily assaults. There have by no means been as many assaults as there have been within the final 5 years.

Attacking a instructor or medical personnel is now punishable below the Prison Regulation Code, which signifies that if discovered responsible, jail sentences are handed down. Beneath this new ruling, the primary personnel to go to jail was a mom who attacked a male instructor in Fuentevaqueros in 2011.

(Information: Metropolis & Metropolitan Space, Granada, Andalucia)