The alarm from Celesti, president of the Health Society. The city council: a report on staff shortages
PISTOIA. During this year, five general practitioners will cease their activity in the municipality of Pistoia. Mostly (but not only) for having reached the age limit, that is, for the expiry of the fateful seventieth year. The alarm comes from the president of the Health Society and deputy mayor Anna Maria Celestiduring his speech at the last meeting of the health commission of the municipal council.
In short, a good portion of the 21 general practitioners who will leave their posts in the next two years concern the capital city. And if the concern of the health authorities has so far concentrated above all on areas most in difficulty due to the lack of professionals, such as the mountains or the Quarrata area, even the capital does not seem to fare very well.
«Here too we will be lacking – underlined Celesti – but the problem is upstream and it is always the same: the lack of effective programming, at all levels. Both in university faculties and in regional specialization schools. By cutting back and waiting for problems to resolve themselves, doctors retire and the problem has grown. “
According to Celesti, the problem does not only concern family doctors but also hospital ones. “There is a lack of emergency doctors – he underlines – there is a lack of anesthetists, there is a lack of orthopedic doctors”. In short, a bleak map.
And the reflection on the shortage of personnel should be extended to nurses and radiology and laboratory technicians, as important (as seen with Covid swabs, when overwork is over on their shoulders) as little considered.
Indeed, the session of the health committee of the municipal council had started from the clear-cut shortage of nurses. The analysis is contained in a motion signed by the four municipal councilors of the Democratic Party, to send the Region as soon as possible “a report – so we read in the text – of the need for nursing and medical personnel in the Pistoia area … with the request of an action plan for the resolution of shortcomings “.
Deputy Mayor Celesti agreed with the request contained in the motion. Even if you – he stressed – the problem is from Pistoia but in the same way it is Tuscan and Italian. “No problem producing a report like the one you requested – she said – because the shortcomings are all in full evidence. But what we really must ask the Region is to implement concrete actions, waiting for the government, at national level, after the pandemic, to decide to tackle this problem ».
And another municipal council doctor intervened on the non-compliance with the commitments by the Region, Carla Breschi (Mixed group), recently retired hospital oncologist. “In oncology – she said – the situation is to be defined tragic. Doctor Di Lieto who retired has not been replaced, two other doctors are pregnant, and those who remain must face a worsening of the situation, because due to Covid many people have not done the screening and now they show up in hospital many people with late diagnosis, therefore more difficult to treat. The Region had promised three more people, but there aren’t any ».
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