ROME (ITALPRESS) – “We participated in an important meeting with Undersecretary Gemmato and all the health professional orders. We have been intervening immediately on this long-standing problem in Italian health care. Last year in the Bills Decree we increased the penalties for those who commit violence and also instituted ex officio prosecution, but it is no longer enough. We have discussed this with Minister Nordio and at this time we believe that the most useful tool to try to combat this unacceptable phenomenon is to always introduce arrest in flagrante delicto, even deferred.” Thus Health Minister Orazio Schillaci on the sidelines of a meeting with health workers’ representatives on the issue of violence against doctors and nurses. “I also met with Minister Piantedosi, police posts in hospitals have increased significantly, so the government is on the ball,” he added.
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