He was just doing his job. A stretcher bearer Challans hospitalin Vendée, is still in intensive care this Sunday after being “beaten up” on Saturday by several people who accompanied two patients.
This attack on a healthcare worker was revealed this Sunday to AFP by Marc Noizet, the president of Samu-Ergences de France (SUdF). According to him, the attendants who attacked the stretcher bearer “started to get angry because they were frustrated, either by the waiting time or because they were not allowed to enter the service alongside patients.” They fled, leaving their victim “on the ground, unconscious”, adds Marc Noizet.
The victim suffers “serious injuries”
The stretcher bearer suffered “serious injuries” and his attack led to the closure for several hours of the emergency room at Challans hospital, located about sixty kilometers south of Nantes.
The Minister for Health, Frédéric Valletoux, denounced this Sunday on the X network (formerly Twitter) an “odious and cowardly act”.
All my support to the stretcher bearer #EMERGENCIES seriously injured by a user in Challans, in Vendée.
I strongly condemn this heinous and cowardly act.
A hospital is a sanctuary. No violence towards healthcare staff can be tolerated. https://t.co/22MS98G9DD
— Frédéric Valletoux (@fredvalletoux) April 6, 2024
“A hospital is a sanctuary. No violence against nursing staff can be tolerated,” he wrote, providing support to the “seriously injured emergency stretcher bearer.”
“We cannot be the variable of the anxiety, aggressiveness or violence of patients and those who accompany them,” warns Marc Noizet.