The vast majority of Poles think that you should exacerbate penalties for assaulting medical staff – according to opinion survey24 for TVN and TVN24 “facts”.
Opinia24 has conducted TVN and TVN24 for “Facts” poll on aggression towards healthcare representatives. The respondents asked the question: “Do you, according to Poland, be tightened in penalties for assaulting doctors and medical workers?”
84 percent of them indicated the answer, of which 57 percent of the respondents indicated the answer, and 27 percent gave the “rather yes” answers.
The opposite opinion had 10 percent of respondents – the “Rather not” option was chosen by 7 percent of them, while “definitely not” 3 percent.
Source: tvn24
6 percent of respondents decided to indicate “I don't know/refusal”.
A study performed by Opinia24 using CATI telephone interviews, on a representative sample of 1012 Polish inhabitants aged 18 and more, on May 6-7, 2025.
Manifestations of aggression towards healthcare representatives
Recently, there has been a lot of information about aggressive behavior towards doctors, nurses and other medical employees. The allegation of violation of the bodily integrity of public officials was heard by a woman who She beat two doctors and a rescuer in a hospital in Gdynia. The aggressive patient attacked the nurse in Railway Hospital in Pruszków.
Less than a week ago A doctor was deadly attacked at the University Hospital in Krakow. Such events are not only cases of recent weeks. Among other things, in January in Siedlce, a paramedic was dead.
These are not the only cases that were described by the media, and medical staff are constantly dealing with the manifestations of aggression against him.
Author/author: AKR/AKW
Source: tvn24.pl
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