Sassari, fear in the emergency room: doctor attacked by a patient

Moments of fear in the late afternoon at the emergency room of the Santissima Annunziata hospital in Sassari .

A patient of about thirty, for no apparent reason, first broke out and then attacked one of the doctors on duty.

A security guard on duty at the entrance intervened in defense of the doctor, but he too was violently hit by the man in the throes of a nervous breakdown.

Moments of confusion arose: the agitated also disintegrated a computer and threw a stretcher, with understandable panic among the numerous patients waiting to be examined.

With great effort, the thirty-year-old was immobilized and then calmed down. Then he was admitted to the psychiatry ward.

On the spot the agents of the emergency response of the carabinieri and the managers of the university hospital.