The hospital of castellón has led to a different province to the patient that would have been exceeded with another in the unity of acute Mental Health
A helper since he was beaten in the area of the Hospital of Castellón, where you are investigating a sexual assault
The alleged sexual abuser of another patient in the unit for acute Mental Health care was transferred to a hospital in another province in the wake of the facts that investigates the Consortium Hospital Provincial de Castellón, and the court.
hospital Sources have confirmed that the patient was admitted to the Mental Health unit the day on which occurred the alleged assault, was transferred to another center to avoid continuing contact or proximity between the alleged victim and perpetrator.
This transfer occurred as a result of an alleged sexual assault after which the hospital launched the usual protocol in these cases and was willing to collaborate with the court which investigates the alleged facts reported by the relatives of the alleged victim.
The events investigated occurred allegedly on the night of 12 to 13 November, when a patient was admitted to the Treble Unit. He was hospitalized in a room in which there was another patient, and, apparently, took advantage that they were alone for allegedly assaulting the patient that was already entered in the service of psychiatry.
The family of the victim denounced the facts the 13th day, while the Consortium Hospital Provincial is waiting to know the result of the reports on a case that, according to hospital sources, brings out “the lack of staff and security” that exist in the area of Mental Health.
The concern among the staff of the health centre is on the increase, taking into account the gravity of what happened in a unit that has a high number of inpatient and whose pathologies require a special attention and follow-up by the professionals of psychiatry.
The Mental Health unit has 40 beds, mostly occupied by patients, when the existing staff is less than what was usual before you reach the current address. The union CCOO denounced the lack of staff and monitoring in a service in which just a month before was already assaulted by a nursing assistant by a patient of such a unit. It was another patient that came to the help of the health professional in order to avoid that the assault was over.
This service, according to CCOO, has always had a security guard that has prevented the sick can act in a violent manner and that, in the event of some fact of this kind, can intervene quickly. In addition, it has also had a caretaker that gave support to the two nursing assistants and the nurse that works in this unit of the sanitary center of castellón.
A loss of monitoring that was demonstrated with the terms of reference for the contracting of the service of surveillance in which only included three guards for the whole hospital, without specifying the presence of a guard in the Mental Health unit.
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