Covid highlighted a serious health problem.Alarm and trade union proposal but divisions remain
DONNAS. «Nobody is scandalized by the 40 million a year paid to Messi at the Paris Saint Germain football club: we are sure that this price represents an investment in marketing and victories. In the same way, in health care to have the Messi and to return to the excellence of the past (not very distant) is it not right to raise the price? It is therefore clear that in order to buffer the situation and try to maintain at least the essential services, the most immediate solution is linked to the provision of economic incentives to quickly recall personnel to our Region ».
The medical unions Anaao-Assomed, Aaroi-Emac, Anpo, Cimo and Fassid write it in a note, adding: “It’s time to work all together, each in his professional sphere with responsibility and determination, with criticisms and constructive proposals: it is imperative to save what remains of our regional public health, deconstructed and debased by the incapacities and, perhaps, political and corporate wills perpetrated up to the last legislature. Otherwise all that remains will be to observe the defini unarmedtive assault by private cooperatives on our hospital, with the inevitable collapse of services in terms of quality and with an increase in costs for users ».
And therefore, concretely: home, seasonal skipass, shopping vouchers for those doctors who choose the Aosta Valley to replenish the ranks and above all to raise the quality of services. Of course, in addition to the benefits, we are also thinking of bonuses to be included in the paycheck.
However, there is a concrete risk: that Healthcare will restart at two speeds, a sort of Serie A and a Serie B, in short.
The regional councilor for health Roberto Barmasse made it known that “it is essential that the municipalities be involved in the search for solutions in the area”.
My thoughts go to those 13 family doctors who, between retirement and early retirement, will finish their professional work by the end of 2022.
So here’s the idea. In part supported by the trade unions themselves to offer doctors a series of benefits to make them stay or invite them to work throughout the valley, even in those municipalities such as Donnas, Verrès, Point Saint Martin and Bard which geographically define the part defined as “Lower Valley”.
There is also an aspect that should not be underestimated and that could turn into a boomerang: certain offers and benefits could come from the rich areas of the Aosta Valley (Courmayeur, just to name one) while the less rich ones, the rural ones, could be like this. much less palatable. Even if the higher remuneration in the paycheck has already been talked about for years to attract doctors to the Valley, from where instead the bleeding, combined with retirement and the Italian shortage of specialists, is impoverishing quality and health services.