Violence against health care workers in Andalusia: SAS records 362 physical assaults in 2024

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The Central Sindicato Independiente y de Oficiales (CSIF) in Andalusia has reiterated the need to put in place urgently a regime to punish the aggressions against the health personnel in response to the increase of violent episodes during 2024. According to data provided by the Consejería de Salud y Consumo this Thursday, last year there were 1,866 attacks on the staff of SAS, which is 19.3% more than the 1,564 that were reported in 2023. In the…

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The proposal for the Framework Statute of the Ministry of Health is based on some legal provisions that have been implemented over the past two decades and which, therefore, were not covered by the Health Staff Act of 2003, which is still in force, one of which is the recognition of health professionals as “public authorities”, which gives them better legal coverage in the face of any kind of aggression in the exercise of their functions. Despit…

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The Andalusian Health Service (SAS) has published data on attacks on health-care workers in the community, reflecting an increase of 19 per cent over last year. According to the Information Registry of Attacks of Centres (RIAC), in 2024 there were a total of 362 physical attacks (19.4% of the total) and 1,504 non-physical attacks on professionals in public health centres in Andalusia.

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The PP will present at the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies a proposal for a law to have a specific regulatory framework that protects health professionals and strengthens their security against attacks and situations of violence.