“We will not print green passes, it mortifies us”

The “resounding rejection” of the Covid green pass to be printed in the family doctors’ clinics decided by the Draghi government and “above all – as Silvestro Scotti, general secretary of the Fimmg said – also comes from the Fimmg Sicilia (Italian Federation of general practitioners) of some government official who compresses even more the right to health of citizens ”. “It is even embarrassing” began the regional secretary of the Fimmg Luigi Galvano, stigmatizing the burden of printing the document. And again: “It is like going back to the origins of the widespread malaise of family doctors. A request that hurts and that comes after yet another attempt to transform our doctors into IT and administrative technicians, especially in Sicily ”.

“The measure has been exceeded” said Galvano relaunching Scotti’s statements: “It takes more time away from patient care and mortifies the professionalism of doctors. “We will not accept – said the national secretary – a vision of general medicine of a clerical nature, a general medicine that we would like to force to subtract more time from patient care to fulfill administrative functions that have nothing to do with the practice. medical “. A task, he continued, which would also burden “an already very complex study activity for the ordinary management of the virus and the necessary management of chronic conditions which, perhaps someone forgets, is decisive in terms of health”.

“If there had been a dialogue – continued Scotti – we could at least have explained that a similar task cannot even be entrusted to a study collaborator, where present, because this would force the doctor to abuse, giving up his own passwords of the prescribing system. and certification to which, we remind you, you will need to access to issue the green pass “.
The national secretariat of the Fimmg will therefore meet on a permanent basis to elaborate a proposal for change relating to general medicine. “What will the family doctor do? Will it have to book patient access to print the green pass code made ope legis a medical act and delay access to patients due to healthcare problems? Ridiculous. It does not make sense. Unless – according to the Federation – there is the will to implement a project that continues to pass on to the population the message of the ineffectiveness of this service, still today among the most appreciated by the NHS, to favor projects of fake dependence or accreditation that favor a privatization of the primary care service with annexes and connections “. And he warns: “Let us now open an open and public debate on the issue of territorial care and on the role of general medicine on investments and development prospects. Alternatively we will be ready to move from proposals to protest “.