Prosecutors are conducting an investigation into the assault on nursing staff and workers at Quesna Central Hospital.
On December 1, the Public Prosecutor’s Office received a complaint from nurses, workers and security personnel at Quesna Central Hospital relating to assault and injury to a patient in the gynecology department following a dispute over treatment procedures Among the defendants was an agent, to whom the Military Prosecutor’s Office had specialized in the investigation. In the communication filed against him, the Public Prosecutor’s Office had been charged with investigating the facts attributed to the rest of the defendants.
The public prosecutor’s office went to the hospital, examined it, ascertained the damage to some of its medical equipment, furniture and the recording device of the monitoring device, and listened to the statements of the hospital’s safety director and two security personnel on the dispute in the gynecology department between the family members of the reported patient and the nursing staff, and the consequent injuries to the nurses. And the security personnel, and the damages that have been examined by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the Prosecutor’s Office heard the testimony of the surveillance cameras official, who stated that there was a backup copy of the recordings of the cameras that monitored the incident.
The prosecutor has summoned the hospital director and the rest of the parties involved in the incident to hear their statements and the investigation is nearing completion.
Amr Adib comments on the incident
Yesterday the media, Amr Adib, shed light on a report published by the Al-Ousboa website, on the attack on the nursing staff of Quesna Central Hospital.
Adeeb said the problem with Quesna Central Hospital was that an officer went with his wife to a gynecologist who followed up on the pregnancy and the doctor advised the couple to go to the hospital.
Amr Adeeb added on the “Al-Hekaya” program via MBC Egypt that on the fourth and third day his wife entered the hospital with some of her relatives and asked for a doctor due to the difficult condition of his wife, continuing: “There were 2 doctors who did caesarean sections and they started using analyzes and voices. For the wife until one of the doctors finished, and then the doctor came after hearing the sound of the clamp, and then her husband came with people and the unfortunate clashes we have seen began.
He stressed that the attack on medical personnel in Egypt has been “slow in our country”, noting that the officer’s sister works as a doctor in the same hospital, continuing: “He took his wife and went to Shebin El-Kom Teaching Hospital. He suffocated again in the hospital, and this is the official hospital report.”
He stressed that 9 people filed complaints against the officer, accusing him of assaulting him.
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Amr Adeeb, on Quesna Hospital Incident: Attack on Medical Staff, ‘Slow Down Our Country’
