While the Mint has just minted a coin dedicated to the health professions to pay tribute to the effort and commitment made to serve the country in the year marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Regions are launching the first procedures for the suspension of non-health workers. still vaccinated. Doctors, nurses, health professionals and socio-health assistants who, without a valid reason (for example the recovery from Covid for less than six months) have not yet complied with the vaccination obligation imposed by law and are not even booked.
An audience of 45,753 professionals, equal to 2.36% of the category (only 0.2%, specified the trade unions, represented by doctors), according to the latest weekly report of the commissioner. Concentrated in only nine Regions: the most numerous are in Emilia Romagna (14,390, 7.9% compared to the number of health workers in the whole Region, Sicily (9.214, equal to 6.5%), Puglia (9.099, which corresponds to 6.5% of the category in the region) e Friuli Venezia Giulia (5.671, pari all’11,9%).
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From job change to suspension
For these health workers, explained the secretary of the major of the unions of hospital doctors, Anaao-Assiomed, Carlo Palermo, law 76 of 2021 provides in the first instance «that they may be assigned to perform other tasks not in contact with patients, but this only where possible; secondly, the operator or doctor can be placed on compulsory leave. Ultimately, suspension from the profession is used without the receipt of the salary. However, the possibility of dismissal is not contemplated and the rule is in any case valid until 31 December 2021 “.
Anyway, he pointed out Palermo, “Unvaccinated doctors, out of the total number of health workers, and for whom the ASL could initiate suspension proceedings, are a very low percentage: no more than 0,2%, equal to approx 200-300 medici on the national territory “. The union’s position is “clear and clear”: “Doctors cannot fail to get vaccinated because it is unacceptable that treatment centers such as hospitals can turn into places of potential epidemic contagion for citizens”.
“Low percentage in private structures”
Barbara Mangiacavalli, president of the National Federation of Orders of Nursing Professions (Fnopi), says that “in public facilities almost all nurses are vaccinated, and we are above the 95%, while in private structures and in nursing homes assisted Rsa for the elderly the percentage is unfortunately lower “.