“First of all, I want to reiterate that our doctors and nurses have the highest priority and we have demonstrated this with concrete actions.” The councilor of the Lombardy Region for Welfare, Guido Bertolaso, who has been in Buenos Aires for a few days on a mission to Argentina and then to Paraguay which aims to start cooperation with these countries and recruit nursing staff, starts from this consideration.
“We were the first, like Lombardy – added the councilor – to have arranged a series of economic incentives for those who work in the emergency room, for those who deal with emergencies.
We have opened up the various specialties to freelancers, including paediatrics, psychiatry, orthopedics and those specializations that we lack most in hospital facilities, increasing hourly incentives. The goal is to relaunch and reorganize our public health service.”
South America, on the other hand, is an area chosen also because “here, from many points of view, the population is very close to us”. In Argentina, for example, “the ambassador told me that there are 1,800,000 Argentinians who also have Italian passports. I want to create a bilateral cooperation program, so that each of the two countries can benefit from this initiative of ours – he explained -. Therefore train nurses here who can be useful to the Argentine healthcare system and ensure that some of them can then come to work in Italy.” The councilor then announced that another mission is planned in the United States in May, with the president of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana, which aims to bring together Italian doctors who work in this country.
“We asked our embassy to bring them together to explain to them what our project is, what our vision of public health in Lombardy is and what our intentions and expectations are” concluded Bertolaso.
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