Venice, the chaos of the medical guard: Mestre without operators and answers from Pellestrina
Medical guard in the chaos, and the idea of mass resignation is making its way into the islands. For four days the USL 3 changed the new organization, sorting the phone calls from Mestre, Favaro and Quarto d’Altino to Venice and the islands. “The mainland users are particularly aggressive because the doctor who answers in the lagoon and cannot visit them – reports a doctor from the estuary – And the local patients are unable to speak to us because the line is occupied by calls from the mainland and therefore alert the 118 “. The example is the classic persistent stomach ache which could be a banal spasm but also peritonitis or torsion of the intestine: there is no way to verify if the patient is in Favaro and a doctor from Pellestrina or Murano responds. “And 90 percent of the phone calls come from Mestre – reports another doctor – The USL says that 70 percent of calls are resolved over the phone? Meanwhile, the other 30 remains. And then they are distorted by the pandemic, where assistance with self-monitoring is done over the phone ».
I flyers
No names at this stage, but flyers are circulating. In Murano the pharmacy has posted a notice: «The policy was that of dump the excess requests from District 2 onto District 1rather than to strengthen the means and personnel of District 2. After 60 days of notice according to the law, it is possible that the guardhouse will suffer the reduction or suspension of the service ». The idea of mass resignation is gaining ground in insular Venice and today the collection of signatures starts to avoid the cancellation of the medical guard. The proposal is to dare a second telephone line to the mainland to contact the other doctor on duty, without bouncing users in the historic center. In Mestre, Favaro and Quarto the situation is at the limit: out of a need for 20 doctors for night care continuity, there are 7 in service. The others “resigned”, canceling the contract. “The limited number of universities has led to an impoverishment,” says general director Edgardo Contato. Applies to all sections of the Usl 3, where 400 people are missing. Hiring barely covered the needs and if there were 7,275 employees in 2019, now there are 7,396, just 1 percent more despite the pandemic.
Doctors prefer coop rather than USL
Those who are on the market prefer to set up a cooperative or a Spa that makes a contract with the Local Health Authority, or go private. “Where there is no risk of ending up working in the emergency room, where there is no workload that has invested the public due to Covid, where you can bargain a piece of salary – explains the secretary of the CGIL Public Function Daniele Giordano – Furthermore, there is no incentive to work in the city of water, which has higher costs for the same salary ». And in private you work: thanks to regional funding, the amount of unpaid benefits due to the pandemic is being disposed of. “The Local Health Authority 3 is committed to recruiting personnel in a situation in which it is difficult to identify specialists – recalls Contato – Where normal bankruptcy procedures are deserted, contractual forms other than the usual ones are used”. Basically, external collaborations. Lately one hundred doctors have been hired in the wards and waiting for Azienda Zero to indicate new competitionsThursday signed with Cgil, Cisl and Uil un agreement to extend temporary temporary workers and to issue a fixed-term notice with no deadline for technical and nursing profiles.
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February 5, 2022 (change February 5, 2022 | 11:08)
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