The meeting on the critical issues of healthcare in Sardinia.
The health councilor, Armando Bartolazzi, met with the trade union associations of general practitioners to take stock of the critical issues in the sector in Sardinia and the necessary interventions to be adopted. Improve the existing situation of the sector and think together about both the most urgent and structural actions.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Italian Federation of General Practitioners (FIMMG), the National Autonomous Union of Italian Doctors (SNAMI), the Italian Doctors Union (SMI), the CISL Doctors and the Federation of Territorial Doctors (FMT).
Specifically, it is a project that tends to motivate and make the possibility of working as general practitioners more attractive in Sardinia, accessing specialization places in internal medicine subjects (such as cardiology, internal medicine, oncology) outside the scholarship, i.e. in additional places and without a scholarship. A proposal that would offer a young general practitioner who takes up the role for at least five years the possibility of enrolling in a specialization school and, if all goes well, specializing.
“Today for the first time – said Bartolazzi – we made a proposal of structural value to try to solve the very important problem of the shortage of general practitioners in Sardinia. The meeting, which was addressed with the presence of all the trade unions representing general practitioners, had the motivation and intention of presenting a project which, as an Executive, we had already had in mind for a few weeks. That is to allow, in derogation of national laws, access to specialization schools for young general practitioners who agree to work for at least five years in the Sardinian territory”.
“This project – specifies the representative of the Todde Council – should be of more interest to newly trained young doctors, and therefore between 32 and 35 years, and it will be very difficult to attract more experienced doctors in a significantly older age group. It is a project, I must say, that gives me a lot of hope. That of being able to fill the staff shortage gap that has been recorded in recent years. The proposal, taking advantage of the Autonomy of the Region, because it derogates from national laws, should lead – explains Bartolazzi – to a partial resolution of the problem of general practitioners.
A proposal that will have to be agreed not only with the trade unions, but also with the ANCI, and therefore with the Municipalities, which we hope to meet next week. The most critical and important meeting will be the one with the Rectors and Deans of the University’s medical faculties, with whom we should work in concert, seeking an agreement that is – concludes the councilor – advantageous for both and I am confident that we will certainly find a square”.
