The University Hospital of Melilla (HUME) has received training with health personnel within the actions being carried out for the implementation of the Violeta Point.
The Head of the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women, Laura Segura, has given the Ingesa staff this initiative that aims to provide basic training on violence against women and information on how to act in a case of male violence and on the resources of the State and the City in the field of violence.
Laura Segura has stressed the importance of professionals from all fields being trained in this field, but especially in the field of maximum health when, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), women victims of male violence attend 33% more medical consultations than women who do not suffer violence.
Agents against gender violence
Segura has stressed that the objective of the Unit is to improve the institutional response given to victims of gender violence in the face of all gender violence, which, she has clarified, is not limited only to those that occur in the context of the couple or the former couple, but includes trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, sexual violence or forced marriages. “We take care of all the violence suffered by women just because they are women,” she said.
For this reason, Segura has stressed the importance of this training day, after which attendees will be an active part and “agents against gender violence”. “The idea of this day is to raise awareness, raise awareness with data, with content, with theory, so that the issue is known in depth and to offer all possible arguments when working and extending the Violeta Point in the Administration and its staff,” he said.
In this way, it has valued these training activities, “fruit of the collaborative work and the signing of the protocols with the different areas of the General Administration of the State”. “Training is key in the fight against gender-based violence,” she said.
Throughout these training days, Segura explained, attendees are approached to the different realities of gender violence and the various forms of violence against women through the data collected.