Call for army to protect Italian hospital staff after spate of attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/11/call-for-army-to-protect-italian-hospital-staff-after-spate-of-attacks
Patients and relatives turn on doctors and nurses, with 16,000 reports of physical and verbal assaults in 2023 alone
Loreto Gesualdo, the president of the Italian Federation of Medical-Scientific Societies (Fism), has proposed legislation to suspend free access to medical care for three years for those who assault healthcare workers or damage health facilities.
Fism reported more than 16,000 verbal and physical attacks against doctors and nurses in Italian hospitals in 2023 alone.