US EditionPolice Warns that Reports of Assaults on Health-Care Providers Increase by 26%: "They Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg"
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Last year the National Police handled a total of 513 complaints of assaults on health personnel, a figure 26.35 % higher than in 2024 and that includes more than a hundred...
"We have a problem. Our health services are being attacked and, worse, they are not denouncing." This is what the head of the Central Private Security Unit of the National Police, Manuel Yanguas Menéndez, said on Wednesday during the presentation of the assessment of the assaults on health professionals in 2025. The data are revealing because the National Police processed 513 complaints last year, which represents an increase of 26 per cent over…
During the past year, the National Police recorded a total of 513 complaints of assaults on health personnel, an increase of 26.35 % over 2024, reports Efe, Among them, more than a hundred involved physical violence, representing 39.24 % of the cases.The head of the Central Private Security Unit and health police interlocutor, Manuel Yanguas Menéndez, offered these data at a press conference and warned that these figures "do not reflect the real…
The National Police presented on Wednesday in the Police Complex of Canillas (Madrid) the balance sheet of the attacks on health professionals during 2025, in which more than 11,000 police interventions were carried out. More than 3,500 police actions were carried out in health centres and 8,000 in home care and 138 arrests were carried out for assaults on health professionals. In 2025, a total of 513 complaints were recorded, an increase of 26.…
Violence is rooted in the National Health System (NSS). This is the main conclusion that is drawn from the report of attacks on health care in 2025 presented by the National Police. In total, the security corps carried out more than 11,000 interventions related to health professionals. A figure that exceeds that of the previous year, when they reported about 10,000 actions. According to the information provided by the armed institute, most of th…
A total of 513 reports of assaults were recorded in 2025, an increase of 26.35 per cent over the previous year, with an increase in offences involving attacks against public officials and threats.
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