165 irregular job positions were discovered by the Nas carabinieri during an operation that took place in hospitals and nursing homes throughout Italy.
The investigations began in mid-November. Numerous cases have emerged of structures that "increasingly resort to tender contracts to make use of healthcare professionals - doctors, nurses and healthcare operators - supplied by external companies , usually attributable to cooperatives".
The checks concerned 1,934 health facilities , with the monitoring of 637 private companies/cooperatives and the verification of over 11,600 figures including doctors (13%), nurses (25%) and other health professions (62%).
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