Frustrated, they beat up a stretcher bearer and leave him unconscious on the ground: the man ends up in intensive care

Un brancardier passé à tabac dans un hôpital de Vendée. (illustration) MAXPPP – Jean-Marc Quinet

This Saturday, April 6, 2024, a stretcher bearer from the Challans hospital, in Vendée, was severely beaten and left “unconscious” on the ground. A surge of violence denounced by the president of Samu-Ergences de France.

A stretcher bearer was seriously injured after being beaten by a person at the Challans hospital, in Vendée, the Sables-d&e prosecutor's office announced to AFP on Sunday. rsquo;Olonne. According to the public prosecutor, Gwenaëlle Cotto, the stretcher bearer was hit by "a single person who was accompanied by others" people in the hospital.

"This person has fled and we are doing everything we can to arrest him", a- she indicated, specifying that an investigation for "violence against medical personnel" had been opened.

A problem of frustration?

The incident took place late Saturday morning, according to the president of Samu-Ergences de France (SUdF), Marc Noizet, for whom the attacker did not acted alone. "Several people who accompanied two patients in this department in large numbers began to get angry because they were frustrated, either by the waiting time or because they were not allowed to enter the department alongside the patients", explained to the ;AFP Marc Noizet.

Un brancardiers des urgences gravement blessé après une agression par un usager @SUdF_Officiel condamne fermement ces actes de violence à l’égard des agents hospitaliers
Et adresse tout son soutien à notre collègue et sa famille @fredvalletoux @CaVautrin @vadeb988 @laFHF pic.twitter.com/wrE28vD60C

— marc NOIZET (@MarcNoizet) April 6, 2024

"They beat a stretcher bearer who was passing by, and they fled, leaving this victim on the ground, unconscious", continued the president of the SUdF. The stretcher bearer "suffered serious injuries which put him in intensive care again today" Sunday, a- he indicated. Following this attack, the emergency department of Challans hospital was closed "for several hours".

On ~. "A hospital is a sanctuary. No violence against healthcare personnel can be tolerated", he said, adding his support to the "seriously injured emergency stretcher bearer& ;quot;.

Tout mon soutien au brancardier des #urgences gravement blessé par un usager à Challans, en Vendée.

Je condamne fermement cet acte odieux et lâche.

Un hôpital est un sanctuaire. Aucune violence envers le personnel soignant ne peut être tolérée. https://t.co/22MS98G9DD

— Frédéric Valletoux (@fredvalletoux) April 6, 2024

Marc Noizet also expressed his "anger" that "caregivers can be the object of violence". "We cannot be the variable of the anxiety, aggressiveness or violence of patients and those who accompany them."