The murder of a nurse in Berezovsky (Nizhny Tagil) shocked the medical community. After the shocking murder of a nurse in Berezovsky, many doctors fear for their personal safety, as reported in E1.RU.
Physicians often face dangerous situations as they work directly with patients who may be under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Unlike law enforcement officers, who have legal protection against those they arrest, medics do not enjoy such immunity.
The Ministry of Health raised the idea of introducing a law to protect healthcare workers in 2016. MPs then proposed in 2021 that criminals who attacked healthcare workers be prosecuted for their crimes; however, the plan was rejected by the ministry.
Ambulance calls are not always an emergency; many of them occur to solve personal problems or improve mood.
The problem of attacks on medical workers persists, doctors say, but it is difficult to predict how it can be tackled. However, it makes sense to equate medical workers with police officers and introduce laws similar to their protection.
It is essential for all healthcare workers to have police protection. Only when the safety of medical workers is ensured will patients be able to receive prompt and effective treatment, doctors say.
Medical colleagues have already experienced problems during their shifts when they were harassed and forced to perform intimate acts. Patients were dissatisfied with these transgressions and filed complaints against them.
Several doctors even spoke about how they were threatened with a gun right during the call. Of particular danger are alcoholics, drug addicts and mentally ill people: all of them can suddenly attack a doctor during work. E1.RU .
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