A 58-year-old doctor was brutally beaten and kicked by the relatives of a patient, inside the Avellaneda Sanatorium located in Santa Fe, Argentina. The event occurred last Saturday, at 7:20 p.m., in the diagnostic imaging sector where the professional works, and the attack was recorded on a security camera.
According to what was reported by local media, The attacked doctor was identified as Guillermo Bailat, who, after performing an ultrasound on another patient, was intercepted by the attackers who brutally attacked him in the corridor, which resulted in a fractured rib, an ocular effusion, and bruises on different parts of the doctor’s body.
Despite the fact that the doctor tried to dissuade his attackers, they did not come to their senses and continued their attack. It was two against one. And although at one point, the two men went through the door of the corridor that leads to the waiting room, then one of them re-entered to continue beating the professional.
When making the criminal complaint, the doctor Bailat explained that he was working when he was intercepted by two men, the children of a patient, who physically assaulted him until he was left lying on the floor, while a woman filmed the beating.
The doctor explained that the attackers threatened him with reprisals if they found him on the street and said that everything was also recorded in filming made through cell phones.
Medical spokespersons indicated that the violent reaction of the two men would have originated after a doctor’s comment to a nurse that “it was not an urgent situation” for the woman’s care, something that would have bothered them even more.
For its part, the Union of University Health Professionals (Siprus) of the city of Reconquista expressed its repudiation of the “brutal aggression suffered” by Bailat in the development of his profession.
“We see with great concern the increase in situations of violence of all kinds suffered by health workers in the workplace,” added the union, which maintained that they generate “a devastating impact and consequences on those who suffer them in particular and the fear in general.
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