Valladolid (EFE) Andalusia (728), according to the Aggression Observatory of the General Nursing Council.
In the national group, last year 2,580 attacks on nurses were reported in Spain, representing an increase of more than 58.38%, compared to 2021, when 1,629 incidents were registered, as detailed by the Council in a statement.
According to the latest data from the Aggression Observatory for 2022, a total of 2,580 attacks on nurses have been registered that year.
By autonomous communities, Andalusia recorded a greater number of these events, with 728, followed by Castilla y León (317), the Basque Country (315), the Balearic Islands (268) and Galicia (188).
On the contrary, the regions that reported the fewest attacks were Melilla (0), Extremadura (1), Ceuta (3), Cantabria (8), the Canary Islands (11) and Catalonia (18).
Diego Ayuso, director of the Observatory and general secretary of the Council, has maintained that this increase “has really been due to the fact that attacks have increased in such an alarming way, but rather because there is a greater awareness of professionals when it comes to reporting and a greater sensitivity when registering the data by the autonomous communities”.
And the President of the Council, Florentino Pérez Raya, has stressed that “nurses in Spain face every day to do their work with brutal care pressure due to the chronic deficit of professionals that our country drags. In fact, almost a hundred thousand nurses are needed to match our European neighbours”.
For Pérez Raya, “nurses are not responsible for the ills of the system, for the delays in care, for the lack of resources, for not being able to meet their expectations. In fact, on many occasions we are the ones who also suffer all these problems in our health system ”, he added.
For this reason, the president of the 336,000 Spanish nurses has argued that “there are limits that cannot be crossed, because the dedication of our professionals does not imply enduring harassment or aggression. With violence, whether verbal or physical, we must have zero tolerance. There is no justification for feeling afraid or suffering injuries, threats or harassment when one simply performs their work in their workplace. And even less when your job consists of saving lives, taking care of people’s health”. EFE