The rented doctors "were a failed operation, costly for the public coffers and harmful to the Sardinian healthcare system as a whole".
The opinion, clearly rejected, is from the regional councilors of the Sardinian Progressists group: they refer to the Region's choice to outsource "part of the medical services in the emergency room through professionals who depend on a contracted company and not directly from the healthcare companies".
Opposition representatives have presented a bill to prohibit the use of external contracts for emergency room services which at the same time provides for the extension of existing contracts. «What is worrying», the councilors write when presenting the filed bill, «is above all the fact that yet another disincentive to work for public health has been created: the salaries of doctors on rent, even though they are mainly concerned with managing simpler cases in code white and green, are far superior to those of an employee of the regional health system, who carries out a more demanding and riskier job in all respects".
For the opposition representatives, action must be taken «on the causes that discourage doctors and nurses from accepting employment in healthcare companies, first of all by increasing the remuneration of the staff employed in these structures and thinking about exemptions at national level that Sardinia must demand by virtue of the its condition of insularity and low population density".
(Unioneonline)
