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Health personnel, who undertake the task of providing the health services we need, are faced with many serious problems as well as the difficulties they experience in terms of the content of the service they perform. This situation causes serious harm to the health personnel on the one hand, and the patients who need the health services provided by them, and therefore to the whole public.

Now, almost every day, news of a case of violence against healthcare personnel is received in one of our provinces in Turkey, and the extent of the violence is increasing day by day, reaching the point of murder. Just the other day, we buried a young nurse due to the attack of a person who we cannot describe with words that have not had her share of humanity. Unfortunately, one of our doctors was attacked in our Yalova State Hospital yesterday.

Unfortunately, the security measures in our hospitals are insufficient, and the healthcare workers who serve around the clock, unfortunately, are faced with many acts of violence due to insufficient security measures. People who enter hospitals with a waving hand can have sharp injuring tools on them, and even more can enter with a gun. Let alone entering the hospital, they can go to patient rooms, doctor's rooms, even nurses' rooms without going through any security screening. Even in the smallest shopping malls, such injurious devices are not allowed inside while passing through the X-RAY device, while in a very important institution such as a hospital, the fact that such devices can be brought inside the areas where our citizens are dense makes everyone nervous. Therefore, it has become a necessity for healthcare professionals to work in a safer environment and for the safety of our young and old children who come for treatment, to provide hospital entrances through a single point where the necessary security measures are taken, and to have X-RAY devices at all entrances of the hospital.

In order for all health workers to provide reliable health services and to ensure the continuity of this service, the general security measures of hospitals must be increased. The Law on Preventing Violence in Health should be supported with more severe penalties and sanctions. The perpetrator should not be released pending trial on the evening of the same day. These inhuman acts should have severe punishments so that people avoid such acts.

This deterrence, which is tried to be provided by the regulations in the laws; I hope that all kinds of violence against all members of the society, especially health workers, and all living things will come to an end, and I hope that our health workers will not face such evil acts again.

Tahsin BECAN
Chairman of the Board