The representatives of the CGIL, CISL and UIL trade unions face to face with the Regional Councilor for Health Mario Nieddu.
"An opportunity for discussion, in particular on the shortage of health personnel", explained Nieddu at the end of the meeting.
"We talked about numbers in hand", added the commissioner, specifying that " in terms of recruitment in three years we have announced 140 competitions , more than half already completed in addition to hundreds of selections and stabilizations. Some of these competitions, however, , were banned and repeated several times because the number of participants was not sufficient to meet the needs of our health system . As regards specialists, moreover, it is increasingly common that competitions are used as an alternative tool to mobility by doctors who are already To give a figure, in the last competition for specialists in anesthesia and resuscitation out of one hundred candidates, only three doctors were not yet employed in our hospitals ".
“A general picture - continues the commissioner - which is not a peculiarity of our region. Sardinia faces a shortage of health personnel, in particular medical specialists, which comes from afar and affects the entire national territory. At the regional level, we have increased the number of scholarships for specialization schools, from just under thirty to over two hundred . The good news comes from the fact that in a few months the many trainees children of the new program will enter their third year and may already be employed in our health system "
“Starting from the assumption that today in Sardinia staff shortages are found everywhere, with the trade unions the issue linked to the need for greater rationalization of human resources was also addressed. To date - explains Nieddu - the margins for maneuver on this front have major limits in terms of national legislation. Greater flexibility would certainly allow us to intervene more effectively, in particular, on the suffering of peripheral hospitals. We posed the question in Rome, without ever having received an answer ”.
“Several points of convergence emerged during the meeting that we decided to update after 22 October, starting from the opening to regional mobility of the Oss . Furthermore, strengthening trade union relations with health companies will certainly be an objective that will find our utmost commitment and collaboration. To give support to the principals in difficulty - concluded the commissioner - I asked the unions to raise awareness among staff , as we have always done, to promote adherence to the incentives made available thanks to the instrument of additional regional resources ”.
(Unioneonline / lf)
