Naples, psychiatrist threatened with a gun by a patient: shock at the mental health center

Threatened with a gun by a psychiatric patient . Shocking episode at the Secondigliano Mental Health Center in Naples .

A psychiatrist on duty in the facility is the victim . A nurse was with her: the two women managed to escape upstairs and ask for help .

The intervention of the State Police was ready and the patient, who has psychopathological problems, was hospitalized .

«Our doctor, still in shock but with a great spirit of service - says the general director of ASL Napoli 1, Ciro Verdoliva - accompanied the patient by ambulance to the hospital by the sea . A commendable behavior which, once again, says a lot about the professionalism and human quality of our staff».

Verdoliva, in addition to reiterating his support and the closeness of the strategic management to those who suffer violence in the service, also thanks the forces of order for the work they carry out every day "making the garrisons safer" . Even during the transport to the Ospedale del Mare, underlines the ASL, "the patient maintained attitudes" that were not appropriate towards the psychiatrist .

The man was visited in the Emergency Department of the Sea Hospital and then hospitalized in the psychiatric diagnosis and treatment department of the San Giovanni Bosco hospital for further psychodiagnostic investigation.

The directors of the Mental Health Units of Naples - together with the director of the Mental Health Department - will meet this morning in the Secondigliano Mental Health Center to express support for their colleague and take stock of the situation. " We have made available to our doctor a criminal lawyer to file a complaint and we are ready to form a civil party in any trial ", concludes Verdoliva.

(Unioneonline/vl)