Above all, they ask that they be recognized equal dignity with respect to professional categories of the same level. They are the obstetricians, who, in the face of the new CCNL, have not seen their efforts rewarded in economic terms, like their colleagues, during the difficult months of the Covid pandemic.
“We have been subjected to real discrimination – he underlines Daniele Compound, obstetrician in Turin, operating in the delivery room -. The obstetrician by definition is the health professional who, independently, with science and conscience and on the basis of the skills acquired, is responsible for the process of prevention, care, assistance and rehabilitation in all the areas mentioned to promote and protect the health of women. , children, couples and families. During the pandemic – explains Composta – the law 178/2020 was instituted, which speaks only of nurses, not contemplating the figure of the midwife / or who is of the same category “.
What burns most is that in the recently updated National Collective Agreement, a specific nursing allowance has been established (based on the above law) and an identical allowance has not been provided for the obstetric profession which has instead been placed in the category of activities grouped under the heading “protection of the sick and health promotion”.
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“This is why we talk about good and good discrimination. The obstetrics profession is included among the welfare professions in the same way as nurses, pediatric nurses and nurses. Even the course of study is similar, at least for the first year, it then diversifies over the two-year period. And the specialist degree is called incidentally “Nursing and Obstetric Sciences” “.
Different treatment therefore, for professional categories that are for various reasons on the same level and that, in the course of these last months marked by a health emergency with few precedents, have had to put in place energy, fatigue and efforts in equal measure. “We never stopped during the pandemic and we continue every day to welcome births, mothers, children and families, each carrying out specific assistance activities of competence”, says Composta.
At the forefront with Covid
In the last two years, healthcare personnel, as we have all realized, have found themselves at the forefront of other professional sectors in spite of themselves. Blended in the vortex of the tragedy that involved the entire country. Obliged to manage the daily life of the service in parallel with the extraordinary nature of new events. “Active assistance in labor and delivery is a very fragile condition for women and couples – points out Compound -. The presence of the midwife is active and constant and stays locked up in a suit with mask and visor for up to 8 hours. in a row it has been and still is terrifying, heavy and psychologically debilitating. Healthcare personnel are at the end of their strength, even among obstetricians, as has happened to nurses and all other health workers, there have been cases of infected with coronavirus and cover the 24-hour shifts were not at all easy “.
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And then the problem of the tools to be used for the parts that must necessarily be managed with extreme care, watching over the sterility of each object. “We have faced enormous difficulties in the operating theaters! Because the obstetrician also works as an instrumentalist in the spaces used for caesarean sections. And obviously surgery has not been excluded from the presence of Covid”, notes Composta.
We are united, across the country
Now the category therefore asks that the aforementioned law be modified, including “for logic and correctness”, as our interlocutor points out, the category of obstetricians. All this possibly in advance of the definitive signing of the new CCNL. “For the first time in years I see the union of all obstetric professionals – observes Compound -. Thanks to this umpteenth discrimination, there is a compact front, we have raised our heads, from North to South for a single goal. we believe, we are there and will always be there for women for couples for children and for all those wonderful aspects that the obstetric profession encompasses “.
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