(Finance) – After the minister’s no Giancarlo Giorgetti at the request of the Minister of Health, Horace Tell usmore funds – the minister had asked for 4 billion more to be included in the health fund – the problem of the personal in hospitals. In fact, in many departments and territorial services there is a lack of doctors and nurses who are increasingly replaced by the so-called token doctors – professionals who work on call within public hospitals but through external cooperatives – with an increase in the costs incurred by the health care itself. Minister Schillaci himself has repeatedly stressed the need to give better compensation to professionals to avoid escape from the public health sector.
More resources for the healthcare they would also translate into better compensation for professionals. Salaries or in any case more frequent career progressions would also reduce the outgoing abroad of young graduates but also of more expert figures, as well as travel to private structures, as well as the same phenomenon of token holders who move from one structure to another , still keep the emergency rooms standing in many Regions.
“At this point, Minister Giorgetti chooses which emergency rooms and hospitals to close. Because we can’t take it anymore. We are not asking for money for us, but resources for healthcare”, he told Adnkronos Salute Fabio De Iacopresident Simeu (Italian Society of Emergency-Urgency Medicine), launching an appeal to Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti after his words on the next maneuver which could be “complicated”.
A study of the Foundation Gimbe of May had also highlighted the shortage of doctors of medicine general. According to the analysis provided by Gimbe, “considering acceptable a ratio of 1 for every 1,250 assisted”, on 1 January 2022 a shortage of 2,876 general practitioners and by 2025 more than 3,400 will be lost. Another figure provided by the Foundation concerns family doctors, of whom 42.1% exceed the maximum limit of 1,500 patients, thus reducing the quality of assistance.
The same president of the Gimbe Foundation, Nino Carta bellottacommented on X the news of the MEF’s no to Minister Schillaci’s requests: for public health “Minister Schillaci is asking for an additional 4 billion. Minister Giorgetti declares that the Budget law it will be very complicated and not everything will be possible. It is clear that the right to health protection is no longer a political priority”.