There has been no good news since the last call for vacant seats for general practitioners, published in mid-February. There were 439 posts on the island, just 151 applications were presented. Most of the professionals have chosen the cities, very few want to go to the small inland towns.
« The vast majority of colleagues aim for Cagliari, Sassari, Nuoro, Olbia – explains Umberto Nevisco, secretary of Fimmg -. If we look at the individual lists, in the one relating to transfers, out of 13 applications only 4 are for the "suburbs"». That is Ogliastra, Medio Campidano, Oristanese and Barbagia.
The councilor for health, Carlo Doria, is already adopting every possible countermeasure: «Regarding disadvantaged areas, the stratagem thought up by the general director of ASL 5, Angelo Serusi, is working, and I asked all the other ASLs to replicate it: he activated the extraordinary outpatient clinics of territorial communities (Ascot) , in which general practitioners, emergency medical doctors, local health authority employees and, possibly, freelance professionals and pensioners participate on a voluntary basis agreement for 3 months. 90 applications have arrived for about twenty uncovered locations ».
Another measure adopted is that on incentives: "We have also increased the fund: 10 euros per patient, so a maximalist doctor with 1,500 patients will have an additional contribution of 15 thousand euros ".
Christine Cossu
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