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Cases of discrimination in health-care
5.
Alicante.
Health.
Direct discrimination.
A student informed us that when she was doing an internship as a
clinical assistant at a hospital in Alicante, A Roma woman came in for treatment. When it came time for the patient
to be bathed, one of the other workers asked “Who wants to bathe the Gypsy”; no one volunteered. The clinical
assistant trainee who was Roma herself, offered to bathe the patient and was accompanied by a certified nurse’s
aid. In the middle of the process, the nurse’s aid said “this is disgusting, I’m out of here” and left the student on her
own with the patient. The woman had manicured nails, hair clean and body and showed no sign of poor hygiene.
The student informed the family of what had happened so that they could take appropriate action