The general practitioners who adhere to SMI and Simet are on strike and also in Sardinia the clinics will be closed on 1 and 2 March. Unsustainable workloads, "absurd" bureaucracy, lack of compensation for colleagues who died of Covid are some of the reasons behind the initiative that will involve about 4 thousand general practitioners, continuity of care, 118 and outpatient services nationwide, over 150 professionals in the Island.
"We have no protections - explains Marina Fancellu, regional secretary of the SMI -, we want to oppose the creeping privatization of our profession". And in Sardinia the malaise of white coats is only one of the open questions, in the Regional Council the opposition announced that it will ask Minister Speranza to send emergency inspectors to hospitals and emergency rooms. "The epidemiological picture has changed in the fourth wave - replies the councilor for Health, Mario Nieddu -, the peak occurred in a very short period of time and this, in addition to the 50 thousand unvaccinated that have a significant impact and the absence of measures of closure, has put the system in distress ".
"Our work has become impossible - remarks Fancellu -, and the weight of the bureaucracy, see for example the amount of curing certificates from Covid that we have to evade because the Sisp is not able to do it, it is distracting us from our fundamental task, that is, to treat people ".
What the doctors claim are “holidays, maternity, sickness and serious policies on equal opportunities. We are on strike because more doctors are needed in the area; the emergency medical stations are either closed or merged due to lack of staff; 118 ambulances are without a doctor on board. We want young doctors to be attracted to this profession. A specialization course in general medicine is now unavoidable ”.
(Unioneonline)
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