The government of the Aosta Valley is working on a proposal for an implementation rule to counter the exodus of health care personnel towards more attractive destinations from an economic and professional point of view. This was announced by the regional councilor for health, Roberto Barmasse, with a note that responds to the reports of the unions of the medical management and public functions of CGIL, CISL and UIL on the many difficulties of the Aosta Valley healthcare system.
“The action of this department will never be made explicit through press releases, but through the sharing and search for concrete and viable solutions,” says the councilor.
One of the critical points highlighted by the unions is the question of personnel. “Aware of the objective lack of health professionals, which characterizes the entire Italian territory – says Barmasse -, and aware of the peculiar phenomenon of migration of health personnel, typical of cross-border territories, towards realities beyond the border, the department is preparing a proposal for implementation rule aimed at obtaining specific legislative competence in the field of defining additional and specific economic awards for our regional reality ».
In the note, the Department reviews “the main actions undertaken, to the extent of its competence, starting from the beginning of the mandate, on October 20, 2020” such as the three-year plan for the needs of the USL staff “which will soon be resolved also from the regional administration “, the new competition for nurses, the allowances to health personnel for the Covid-19 emergency.
On Monday 21 June, the regional councilor for health, health and social policies still anticipates, the regional council “will be called to deliberate on the guidelines and objectives of health and functioning of the services of the Local Health Authority of the Aosta Valley for 2021, with which a further 28 million euros will be assigned to the Aosta Valley healthcare system, with the aim of relaunching programming in the recovery phase from the pandemic and increasing the quality of the regional health service and, with particular reference to staff remuneration, economic rewards for 3,300,000 euros to be allocated to the COVID-related freelance profession (LPA), in favor of the Company, for medical management and part of the staff of the sector (for example for the activity linked to the vaccination campaign), in addition to funds made available by national decrees for vaccination and reduction of waiting lists “.
And then, the note continues, “finally, in this legislature, through the frank collaboration between the various competent departments, which has resolved a series of technical problems suspended for some time, a precise indication has been reached on the choice relating to the construction of the new regional hospital that will be built according to the project under discussion on the tables of the regional administration for about 10 years “.
In addition, the Plan for health and social well-being of the Aosta Valley will be “soon presented to the commission”, which is waiting to be updated from 2013. “It is precisely during the consultations that precede the definitive drafting of the plan – continues the note – that the commissioner Barmasse hopes to be able to establish, on the tables of the deputies, a new and constructive collaboration also with the trade unions, in order to avoid that some can ride out situations of collective crisis and hardship, for personal purposes “.
The regional health councilor expressed “full support for the current strategic management of the company, which, although weakened by the temporary absence of the General Manager, is facing many challenges in an excellent way in a post-emergency situation”.
With these clarifications, the councilor “does not intend in the least to diminish the value of the effort and spirit of sacrifice with which all health workers and not in force in the Aosta Valley health system have spent in the months that have passed since the beginning of the pandemic, to on the contrary, it recognizes its resilience capacity not at all affected by the fatigue accumulated over the months ».
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