Moments of fear yesterday afternoon at Diagnostic Center for Social Lung Diseases Of Willermin Streetin Reggio Calabria. The Dr. Salvatore Tripodi, pulmonologist and allergist he was very well known and respected violently attacked by a man who, without a reservation, demanded to be visited immediately. Faced with the doctor’s motivated refusal, the attacker reacted with two punches to the facecausing the professional facial trauma and one momentary loss of consciousness. Only the emergency response to the patients present prevented the situation from escalating further.
“An unspeakable gesture against the entire healthcare community”
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L’Order of Surgeons and Dentists of the province of Reggio Calabria expressed one firm and indignant condemnation for the incident, defining the episode as “an act of brutal violence that offends not only the individual professional, but the entire healthcare system”. In the statement released in the evening, the Order underlines how similar attacks are part of a context of growing tension e di structural deficiencies which put doctors and healthcare workers under pressure on a daily basis.
Tripodi, a doctor appreciated for his professionalism and dedication
Il Doctor Tripodi is known for the competencethe availability and the dedication towards patients. His story, his colleagues explain, represents the symbol of a category which, despite the scarcity of resources and personnelcontinues to guarantee assistance and care Often beyond service hours. A daily commitment that pays off even more intolerable the violence suffered by those who put themselves at the service of public health.
The Order’s appeal: “Enough violence, immediate protection is needed”
The Medical Association launches a urgent appeal to the institutions for them to be adopted concrete security measures in all healthcare facilities in the area, both hospital and outpatient. “The protection of the safety and dignity of those who work in healthcare – reads the note – can no longer be postponed or underestimated”.
Veneziano: “A wound for the whole society”
The president of the Order, Pasquale Venezianohe expressed full solidarity to the attacked colleague: “On behalf of the entire Reggio medical community – he declares – we express closeness to Doctor Tripodi and renew our commitment to ensure that episodes of this kind do not go unpunished. violence against doctors is a wound for the entire society. It’s time to say enough.”
