At Brotzu, a war has broken out between doctors, various healthcare workers and the general management. A conflict that is being fought on multiple fronts. That of the open dispute over the restructuring of the Businco operating rooms, but also on the judicial front: yesterday the Court accepted the requests of ten doctors of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Endoscopy and of General Surgery with an oncological focus, who on Monday filed an appeal against the resolution of the general manager of Arnas, Agnese Foddis, with which a single cumulative on-call service was established. Judge Matteo Marongiu, with an emergency provision, while the NAS were inspecting the spaces on the seventh floor of the San Michele where the cancer patients were transferred , suspended the effectiveness of the resolution on this point, to avoid "the concrete possibility that, for example, a maxillofacial surgeon must deal with emergencies in departments where there are liver transplant recipients or lung cancer patients, without having either the training or the experience to manage similar situations".
And now the company's top management is counterattacking: "The Company is committed to evaluating the methods of implementing the emergency measure adopted by the Court of Cagliari", reads a note, which continues: "It is considered appropriate to reiterate that the forms of protest carried out by some healthcare workers of Arnas, in relation to the plan to restructure the operating rooms of Businco, cause serious damage to the continuity and quality of care provided to patients".
In particular, "the effective organization of on-call shifts is seriously compromised, the implementation of which, unfortunately hindered by the appellants and other operators, is essential for the correct functioning of care activities".
"What we read in the press release from the top management of Arnas the day after the ruling of the labor judge who accepted the appeal presented by the undersigned, lawyer Gianni Benevole and lawyer Gian Luigi Machiavelli, for ten doctors, is a very serious matter," the lawyer replies.
«The urgent appeal was presented precisely to ask the Judiciary to clarify the determination of the Arnas top management. The statement of the Arnas top management appears very serious and is firmly rejected, where it is claimed that "the effective organization of the on-call shifts and their implementation would have been "unfortunately" hindered by the appellants and other operators. The top management of the Company probably does not realize that a Judge ruled on the methods of organizing the on-call shifts, who in a very balanced way took into account all the interests in the field, both to protect the doctors in relation to the professional risks to which they would be exposed, and obviously and indirectly, to protect the patients, but always and in any case taking into high consideration also the organizational aspects of Arnas which have not been limited or damaged in the least, as one would like to imply. Our appeal was presented precisely to ensure the continuity and above all the quality of the care provided to patients, in compliance with the current ministerial regulatory provisions and collective bargaining, which cannot be ignored and which instead, in our opinion, have been completely disregarded by the management. For this reason, the judge accepted the appeal, we reiterate, making a serious reconciliation of all the delicate and important interests at stake. Doctors and all healthcare workers have always offered and made their maximum and total availability and will continue to do so. Therefore, they absolutely do not accept being labeled as those who have hindered the correct functioning of healthcare activities, only for having asserted their rights and indirectly those of patients before a judge. We have only filed an appeal to obtain a more adequate organization of the shifts of some departments, believing that this could hinder the entire organizational aspect of Arnas Brotzu seems exaggerated and out of place to us and we cannot be the scapegoat for anyone, having limited ourselves to requesting compliance with the current national legislation on the matter".
(Online Union)
