ARCHIVED - Ambulance shot at with medical team and patient onboard in Cadiz
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Pellets were fired at the ambulance in the Monterrey neighbourhood in the province of Cádiz whilst responding to an emergency call
The Guardia Civil is investigating an attack on an ambulance which was fired at with a pellet gun with a health team and a patient inside the vehicle whilst travelling through the Chiclana neighbourhood of Monterrey.
Fortunately, the Emergency and Critical Care Unit (DCCU) of La Janda medical staff and the patient who was being treated at the time of the shooting were unharmed, although the ambulance was damaged.
The incident happened at around 10pm at the junction of calles Cuba and Martinique.
“The ambulance went to the scene on two occasions. The first time they arrived and left, but on the second occasion, following reports of a brawl, shots were fired with a pellet gun causing damage to the rear window and partial breakage of another,” confirmed the Guardia Civil, adding that the neighbourhood is considered a “sensitive area”.
Following the shooting, the College of Doctors of the Province of Cádiz (COMCADIZ) has publicly expressed “its indignation, astonishment and repulsion” over the “intolerable” attack which posed a “physical risk for the professionals who were attending the scene and for the patient they were attending to”.
The college revealed there have been other recent acts of violence against health professionals at the Hospital de La Línea and the Algeciras Centro Health Centre, also in Cádiz.
And the seven trade union groups at La Línea hospital (CCOO, UGT, CSIF, USO, SATSE, SMA and FTPS) have also signed a joint statement in which they express their "condemnation of the verbal and physical aggressions suffered by professionals" at the hospital.
“After the enormous effort made by the professionals in this pandemic in which we are still immersed, in addition to the workload to which they are being subjected due to staff cuts made by the Ministry of Health (more than 80,000 dismissals throughout Andalucia), we regret that they are not valued as they deserve and that, on the contrary, they are being punished both by the Administration and by users, going from applause to threats,” reads the document.
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