An orderly at the Virgen Macarena hospital in Seville lost the first phalanx of a finger on one hand after it was torn off by a patient who demanded to be treated urgently at the health center, as reported by the UGT union on Wednesday.
The events, as denounced by the union organization in a statement, occurred on April 28 in the night shift of the emergency service, where a user demanded upon arrival: "I want a doctor to see me. I want him to see me a doctor: if not, I'm going to take a strap and hang myself", so that the administrative staff of the emergency admission service gave him way to the classification room.
In the aforementioned room he began to bang his head against the wall and later he took off his belt and wanted to perform a maneuver to hang himself, for which the guards at the Emergency and classification door went towards him to try to prevent him from doing physical harm. .
The patient became very violent and, trying to avoid harm, bit one of the guards, tearing off the first phalanx of a finger from his hand and later spitting out the piece that had been severed from the worker.
UGT has denounced "the lack of security at the emergency door of this hospital and the lack of protection faced by the professionals of the Virgen Macarena hospital", where "unfortunately, we can see events like this much more frequently than we would like ".
For this reason, it has demanded more security measures "to avoid episodes that occur one day and another, both in hospitals and in Primary Care."
