This after the beating It’s pretty clear that he took it in Ibiza on Friday, December 23. In his 30 years as an ambulance technician, Tony Gonzalez He, like the other Companions, was exposed to numerous insults and threats. There was even six months after being run over by a motorcyclist earlier in the season because he didn’t want to wait for the medical vehicle to load the patient. In Cala de Bou, a doctor and nurse treat a child with a seizure at a home. “He told me to get down, scumbag, I’ll kill you!’ running over me”She remembers being sad. The motorcyclist who broke his hip fled, but was able to report the situation because a neighbor recognized the attacker.
This time the case for this case was still pending when he found a new attack that made him fear for his life and exhausted the patience of his entire group. Last year, 19 attacks on health and ambulance personnel were recorded The Balearic Islands are 20% more than the previous year, but none of them reached the size of last Friday.
González was reinstated to his job at mobile UVI in Sant Antoni for three days when he had to go home at a quarter past six in the afternoon. Relatives of the 44-year-old mental patient had called the 061 switchboard to ask for help.. In cases of psychiatric patients, the police should assist the ambulance, as determined by the protocol.
No police escort
After receiving the service, González inquired about the presence of intermediaries. “They told me that the police did not go because the patient was calm.“, explains González. He came by ambulance to the house in the center of Sant Antoni with the doctor and the doctor. Although they go together, they are connected to different levels. He, as a technician, received help from the public company Health Management and Balearic Islands (Gesaib), while his colleagues SAMU 061′ are legal personnel.
When the vehicle crossed the street, he once again demanded the presence of the police. The nurse and doctor went up to the second floor where they asked for help, and he decided to accompany them.. There were parents, both over 80, and a woman whom González believed was the patient’s sister because of her age. A local family from Sant Antoni for life. They said that the patient had not taken his treatment for a long time and he felt strange. They did not see him in the room.
“He came out of an exalted room suddenly. He kicked the doctor in the face and was going to attack him more,” he explains, still with fear in his eyes. Between the beating and the stress, González goes on to detail some nightmarish moments that he thought lasted him about ten minutes: To protect the doctor, he threw himself on the attacker and fell on the ground. “He was completely out of his mind and he’s a strong man”González points. The patient was kicking and punching even though he tried to hold her. Two health workers run into the street to seek help. despite his age, parents joined in and started kicking him. The mother broke her nose with the toe of her shoe.. If he tried to protect himself from those kicks with his hands from the ground, then the sick from the ground would punch him again.
And when he came back to grab his arms to keep him still on the ground, He took bites on his fingers, stomach, or testicles, and was vulnerable to kicks from adults. I had no escape. He doesn’t remember whether the other woman in the family was there or hiding at the time of the beating. In any case, he “did nothing to help”. He also came to see the mother briefly enter the house and come back from the floor with a sharp object she couldn’t tell if it was a “knife or scissors”.
run away no matter what
“I thought they killed me. scared for my life“, sentence. Fortunately the nurse returned to the apartment. She pulled on her vest to help her get up. As they were descending the stairs, her mother threw a bottle or vase at her, which crashed into her back and an Ashtray hit her on the head. The police were still not there. She locked herself in the ambulance cabin and from then on. He knows he’s been put on a back stretcher and that there are two more ambulances to treat him and transport him to Can Misses Hospital.
The Local Police and Civil Guard arrived, taking the parents away while the patient was being transferred., handcuffed, in another ambulance. Despite all the pain, the victim consoles himself with the fact that his response was correct. “I don’t even want to think about what they’re going to do to the doctor if I’m not around.”
protocol error
González is accompanied by two colleagues to testify: José Manuel Maroto, chairman of the corporate committee in Pitiusas, and Pablo Roig, chairman of the Gesaib occupational health committee. “We will request all calls to resolve where the protocol failed. [por el que falló la presencia policial] So that it does not happen again”.
They confirmed this Thursday from 061’s administration that This service’s phone records and reports have been reviewed to initiate an internal investigation.. A spokesperson for the service confirmed that the protocol failed because agents are required to be there for protection, as established in the care of mentally ill patients. This spokesperson assured the report that police were asked to accompany him, but it has yet to be decided whether it was the local police or the civilian guard yesterday afternoon.
To avoid these situations, Maroto and Roig will also forward their request to the Balearic Islands Government Delegation. As you may remember, technicians and health personnel are authorized to perform their duties and any action against them is a crime. “There are cops who don’t assimilate this, and when they attack and threaten us, they don’t detain the aggressor like they do to themselves,” they warn. Unfortunately, they are increasingly suffering from these conditions. “It wasn’t like this before and it’s getting worse, there seems to be impunity. Luckily Toni [González] They underline those who say, “You can tell about it, but it cannot be repeated.”
The victim has had a week of medical visits and will have to operate on her nose, which has been broken in several places. The otolaryngologist will also examine him for sequelae that may be left over from getting too much blow to his ears and will need maxillofacial intervention. His eyes, especially his face, are covered with bruises. But these sequels aren’t the ones that hurt the most. “I am very sick and need psychological help. The worst part is that my six-year-old daughter saw my face and started crying.”
They require special training to react to attacks.
Although the beating case of Toni González is extreme, the Ibiza ambulance crew sadly condemns that insults and threats are already part of their routine while they work. Even though they are medical emergencies, they find that there are people who do not understand that the medical vehicle must stay near a house in an emergency. Similarly, in scheduled services such as picking up a hemodialysis or rehabilitation patient, they have to listen to swear words and honk while carrying that person.
“It wasn’t happening before, but it has gotten worse and more serious in recent years,” said José Manuel Maroto and Pablo Roig of the Gesaib works council. In fact, they arrived to find that the ambulance was being transported or a non-civilian driver was trying to transport it as they were disembarking from the address they were involved in.
Therefore, as they are already training the medical staff, they demand that the technician group be given training courses, especially in dealing with aggressive patients or their relatives, and in knowing how to fend off attacks. “They give us talks but no specialist training,” they complain.