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So far this year there have been 245 assaults on different health professionals in the Region

The Minister of Health, María Ángeles Palacios, today participated in the inauguration of the VII Conference on Security techniques in hospitals.

Under the motto "Solutions for Management: Prevention & Protection ', will run until Thursday at the Hospital Reina Sofía de Murcia a series of lectures and panel discussions on some of the highlights hospital safety.

Managers and experts recognized for their activity in the area of Security and Risk Management will discuss possible solutions and progress in this area.

Palacios said the hospital safety of particular concern to both the people and to the Ministry, so "always working to analyze and solve the problem" and he said, the instrument to be backbone this response is the Plan for the Prevention of Assaults Health Professionals in the Region of Murcia ", prepared by a group of medical and legal experts, in the words of the minister," raises a number of performance measures on which it is working. "

According to the reports of the Prevention of Occupational Risks Murcia Health Service, so far this year is 245 health professionals who have suffered some form of aggression in the course of their work.

Of these, 160 are women and 85 men.

Cases classified as physical assaults amounted to 45.

The highest number, 83 cases, corresponding to the attacks carried out in visits to specialists.

In the 76 primary care are perceived so far.

Some records, according to Palacios, require Health to "continue working for all those who provide health care with professionalism and respect."

Some of the planned efforts Assault Prevention Plan health professionals will seek to mitigate the potential for conflict between the patient and the medical system from the security measures in schools tailored to the circumstances of each site work.

Along with these measures, the Plan envisaged to facilitate the complaints of all types of aggression, whether verbal or physical act on them with emphasis on assistance and support of the trade, and develop a record of assaults updating the map risk that they could ascertain the extent of the problem.

The Minister of Health stated that "despite all the relationships between our professionals and the vast majority of users of the health system are based on mutual respect and cooperation."

Source: CARM