{"id":6115,"date":"2023-04-24T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2023-04-25T08:15:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T08:15:37","slug":"fatal-blow-to-italian-psychiatrist-sparks-reform-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/europe\/italy\/fatal-blow-to-italian-psychiatrist-sparks-reform-protests\/2023\/04\/24\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"attack on a psychiatrist by patient sparks reform outcry"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROME<\/span> (AFP)<\/span> –<\/span> A<\/span> fatal<\/span> flogging<\/span> by<\/span> a<\/span> hospital<\/span> psychiatrist<\/span> allegedly<\/span> by<\/span> a<\/span> former<\/span> patient<\/span> has<\/span> sparked<\/span> calls<\/span> for<\/span> improved<\/span> mental<\/span> health<\/span> services<\/span> in<\/span> Italy.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Police<\/span> on<\/span> Sunday<\/span> arrested<\/span> a<\/span> 35-year-old<\/span> Italian<\/span> man<\/span> to<\/span> investigate<\/span> an<\/span> attack<\/span> on<\/span> Dr.<\/span> Barbara<\/span> Capovani.<\/span> A<\/span> 55-year-old<\/span> psychiatrist<\/span> was<\/span> repeatedly<\/span> beaten<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> head<\/span> with<\/span> a<\/span> metal<\/span> bar<\/span> as<\/span> she<\/span> left<\/span> her<\/span> job<\/span> at<\/span> a<\/span> hospital<\/span> in<\/span> Pisa,<\/span> northern<\/span> Italy<\/span>\u00a0after<\/span> doctors<\/span> at<\/span> the<\/span> same<\/span> hospital<\/span> said<\/span> her<\/span> Declared<\/span> brain<\/span> dead<\/span> and<\/span> donated<\/span> her<\/span> organs.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Investigators<\/span> said<\/span> her<\/span> assailant<\/span> was<\/span> a<\/span> former<\/span> patient<\/span> who<\/span> later<\/span> violated<\/span> her<\/span> law<\/span> multiple<\/span> times,<\/span> including<\/span> insulting<\/span> her<\/span> on<\/span> social<\/span> media<\/span> and<\/span> beating<\/span> her<\/span> doctor<\/span> in<\/span> another<\/span> northern<\/span> city.<\/span> bottom.<\/span> The<\/span> attack<\/span> on<\/span> the<\/span> psychiatrist<\/span> was<\/span> the<\/span> latest<\/span> in<\/span> a<\/span> series<\/span> of<\/span> violent<\/span> attacks<\/span> against<\/span> hospital<\/span> staff<\/span> in<\/span> recent<\/span> months<\/span> in<\/span> Italy.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Citing<\/span> her<\/span> murder,<\/span> Italy’s<\/span> health<\/span> minister<\/span> called<\/span> a<\/span> meeting<\/span> later<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> week<\/span> on<\/span> Monday<\/span> to<\/span> push<\/span> for<\/span> reforms<\/span> in<\/span> mental<\/span> health<\/span> care.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Health<\/span> Minister<\/span> Orazio<\/span> Schiracci<\/span> said<\/span> that<\/span> in<\/span> recent<\/span> months<\/span> work<\/span> had<\/span> already<\/span> begun<\/span> on<\/span> reforming<\/span> mental<\/span> health<\/span> care<\/span> procedures.<\/span> “We<\/span> have<\/span> to<\/span> make<\/span> sure<\/span> that<\/span> what<\/span> happened<\/span> to<\/span> Barbara<\/span> Capovani<\/span> never<\/span> happens<\/span> again,”<\/span> Schillaci<\/span> said.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>A<\/span> 1978<\/span> law<\/span> closed<\/span> psychiatric<\/span> hospitals<\/span> in<\/span> Italy<\/span> and<\/span> made<\/span> all<\/span> psychiatric<\/span> care<\/span> voluntary,<\/span> with<\/span> very<\/span> few<\/span> exceptions.<\/span> Critics<\/span> say<\/span> the<\/span> law<\/span> envisioned<\/span> a<\/span> network<\/span> of<\/span> neighborhood<\/span> public<\/span> health<\/span> facilities<\/span> to<\/span> provide<\/span> mental<\/span> health<\/span> care,<\/span> but<\/span> it<\/span> was<\/span> never<\/span> fully<\/span> developed.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Police<\/span> said,<\/span> citing<\/span> surveillance<\/span> video,<\/span> the<\/span> suspect<\/span> waited<\/span> for<\/span> doctors<\/span> to<\/span> leave<\/span> the<\/span> hospital,<\/span> but<\/span> returned<\/span> the<\/span> day<\/span> after<\/span> he<\/span> didn’t<\/span> see<\/span> her.<\/span> As<\/span> she<\/span> crouched<\/span> down,<\/span> the<\/span> man<\/span> bloodied<\/span> her<\/span> head<\/span> and<\/span> mortally<\/span> wounded<\/span> her.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>An<\/span> official<\/span> from<\/span> the<\/span> Ministry<\/span> of<\/span> Health<\/span> thanked<\/span> her<\/span> family<\/span> for<\/span> allowing<\/span> her<\/span> organ<\/span> donation.<\/span> I<\/span> explained<\/span> that<\/span> I<\/span> am<\/span> happy<\/span> to<\/span> accept<\/span> new<\/span> patients.<\/span> Last<\/span> year’s<\/span> incident<\/span> involved<\/span> a<\/span> machete<\/span> attack<\/span> on<\/span> a<\/span> doctor<\/span> discharging<\/span> from<\/span> a<\/span> hospital<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> Milan<\/span> area.<\/span> A<\/span> psychiatrist<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> northern<\/span> city<\/span> of<\/span> Mantua<\/span> was<\/span> beaten<\/span> with<\/span> a<\/span> stick<\/span> because<\/span> he<\/span> believed<\/span> the<\/span> woman<\/span> did<\/span> not<\/span> need<\/span> to<\/span> be<\/span> hospitalized.<\/span> Doctors<\/span> at<\/span> hospitals<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> Naples<\/span> area<\/span> were<\/span> kicked<\/span> and<\/span> beaten<\/span> by<\/span> relatives<\/span> of<\/span> patients<\/span> who<\/span> demanded<\/span> medical<\/span> certificates.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ROME (AFP) – A fatal flogging by a hospital psychiatrist allegedly by a former patient has sparked calls for improved mental health services in Italy. Police on Sunday arrested a 35-year-old Italian man to investigate an attack on Dr. Barbara Capovani. A 55-year-old psychiatrist was repeatedly beaten in the head with a metal bar as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[2465,562],"tags":[4283,4299,4284,4285,4286,4287,4288,4289,4290,4291,4292,4293,4294,4295,33,4296,45,4297,2845,4298],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FTTL.webp","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6132,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions\/6132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}