Union meeting with the health management. Nursind and Uil: “Concrete solutions must be sought”
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The hospital emergency room is a case. A meeting is scheduled for today between the health management and the trade unions, requested by Nursind and Uil and then shared by the other trade unions. Starting from a specific case linked to overcrowding that involves hours and hours of waiting for users and the high load of stress, it is announced as the opening of a chasm on a problem that is now afflicting the ASL / To4 to an extent greater than in other health companies: the lack of staff. The emergency room is, by its nature, among the first services to suffer. In the Asl / To4 alone, about fifty urgent doctors are missing on paper and the service is mainly carried out by personnel recruited through external companies. In recent weeks, the debate (including public) has been extensive and articulated. Closed the emergency rooms of Cuorgnè and Lanzo due to lack of personnel, it is not that the Goddess of Ivrea, Chivasso and Ciriè are doing better as they also have to take charge of the users of the closed structures and already at the beginning of July the management of the ‘Asl / To4 has taken some measures for the summer, with the movement of doctors and temporary closures of clinics and operating theaters.
“Unfortunately we are going down a road with no return – says Giuseppe Summa, Nursind – with all the consequences that this entails on operators and citizens”. The reports that the union receives from the staff are daily. «He says he is tired, psychologically and physically – observes Summa -. Many have turned to the counter for work problems and those who have been able to have changed service or have fled elsewhere. The staff is tired, unmotivated, often insulted and attacked by citizens who suffer situations not attributable to them ». The overload on emergency rooms, for the union, is also due to the reduction in the number of medicine beds after Covid. Departments that, in essence, are not at full capacity always due to a lack of staff. «The number of beds has been reduced – adds Summa – both due to lack of employees and the need to divert them to ensure coverage of shifts in the emergency room. The RSA themselves are in difficulty in finding staff. Territorial medicine continues to be fragile: there are numerous accesses to the emergency room of people who should find answers elsewhere “. Already. But where? It is clear that the emergency room is and remains the most important point of reference for the population. «We cannot pretend not to see a problem of this size – he concludes -. We understand that there is a lack of doctors, but I believe that we must decide which services we want to guarantee and above all what kind of services we want to offer to citizens. Citizens from whom we ask for support. I have personally seen the situation of the emergency room in recent days and I am worried about Cuorgnè and Lanzo, where the staff, waiting to know their future, have expressed their intention to move to other companies ».
The U also made two accountsthe public function: «We can say that, in the sector, in Asl / To4 there is room for three hundred people – says Serse Negro -. This indicative number can be deduced from the number of overtime hours and staff holidays. And it is clear that a solution must be found, it is no longer possible to go on like this. For years we have been talking about the shortage of doctors and, gradually, it is a problem that has become increasingly acute. Other professional figures can be hired, there are open rankings. It is clear, however, that the problems must be addressed and effective solutions must be sought “.