A doctors' anti-violence
association on Thursday reported two new attacks on medical
personnel in Naples.
The Nessuno Tocchi Ippocrate (Hands Off Hippocrates)
association said that, in the first incident, an ambulance crew
was attacked with fireworks after being sent to the Barra
district to treat someone.
"While opening the door of the ambulance, a doctor was burned
by a firework," it said via Facebook.
Another doctor was attacked with a bottle near the area of
the San Giovanni Bosco hospital.
Dr Paolo Monorchio, the Red Cross head in the province of
Naples, compared the southern city of a war zone after the
attacks.
"The most disturbing thing about these latest attacks on
health personnel and the damage done to ambulances in Naples is
that one starts to get use to things that do not even happen in
war zones because medical vehicles and personnel are protected
by international conventions," Dr Monorchio told ANSA.
"That is not the case in Naples".
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