Beating up a caregiver in a infirmary in Pruszkow. Ukrainian striker released

Thursday, around 6:00 a.m. There was a violent attack on a caregiver at the Railway infirmary in Pruszków. A 26-year-old citizen of Ukraine, residing in an intensive surveillance unit, attacked a female erstwhile she tried to prevent his arbitrary separation from medical equipment.

The assailant struck her with a fist in the face, causing a lip cut, then continued the attack, kicking her and ripping off medical equipment.

Zofia Czyż, president of the Mazovia Region of the National Association of Nurses and Midwives, reported that the injured caregiver was examined by a doctor and did not require hospitalization, although she suffered severe head and face injuries.

Police, summoned to the scene, stopped the aggressor who confessed. He heard the charge of violating the physical integrity of a public officer, for which he is facing punishment for 3 years in prison. After the hearing, however, he was released home, causing outrage among medical personnel and the public.

According to Margaret Wawryka, president of the National Association of Nurses and Midwives, the situation developed very quickly. A staff caregiver noted that the patient was trying to unplug himself from his wellness monitoring apparatus. She went to get a doctor, asking her teammate to watch the patient for a while. That's erstwhile a 26-year-old attacked a female replacing her.

"He attacked her with his fists, she has a severed head, blackened eyes, she has visible signs of beating, or swelling, bruises," she reported.

Despite visible injuries, the doctor concluded that her life was not in danger, so she was released home after the tests.

The assailant was known for his aggressive behaviour from the minute he was admitted to the ward. As Wawryk added, he was “probably addicted to alcohol and surely drugs”. From the beginning, he was going to effort to attack the personnel. That morning his aggression reached the apogee.

Dorota Ronek of the National Association of Nurses and Midwives did not hide emotions. She reported that the problem of aggression against wellness professionals is increasing.

"Almost 100 percent, due to the fact that 97 percent of nurses, midwives, witness workplace aggression, and 78 percent of nurses, midwives were victims of workplace aggression," she said.

These data leave no illusions – the medical community has long been alerting about an expanding threat. Unfortunately, cases specified as the 1 from Pruszkow are for many only confirmation of worst fears.

The families of patients at that time in the infirmary were besides terrified. The RDC reporter, Adrian Piczek, spoke to relatives of the patients who witnessed the confusion.

“My grandma called and said she heard screams. [...] I do not know what is going on with our society, horrible,” he heard from 1 of the families.