He returns to duty after six months of suspension, but his colleagues rise up, announcing the request for a mass transfer. The sensational initiative takes shape and substance in the Perrino hospital in Toastswhere the return of the technical coordinator of the Pathological Anatomy department, Isabella Greco, temporarily relieved of her duties and sent home for having published photos on social media and chats showing her, cheerfully, while stitching up the corpses in the morgue, put most of the staff into turmoil. Beyond the reminiscences of the images published on the web by the coordinator, accompanied by captions such as the one in which, regarding the stitching operations of the bodies undergoing autopsy, she recalls the advice she received from the seamstress in her youth, there is more.
The possible climate of tension and transfer requests
The operators of the department, highlighting the risk, in their opinion more than concrete, that the return of Isabella Greco could trigger the same climate of tension and unease that would have existed until her departure. «When I was little the seamstress told me (in dialect): ‘Long thread, crazy teacher. It all came true,'” wrote the coordinator commenting on a shot that immortalized her in the act of suturing the abdomen of a body. The post would even have been quite successful, judging by the 93 likes received, accompanied by hearts, emoticons and about fifteen comments with phrases of approval and satisfaction.
The department colleagues, however, are firm in their decision on bulk transfer request, unless the general director of the ASL, Maurizio De Nuccio, takes measures to avoid the sensational initiative. In short, “it’s either her or us”, they warn, putting the company’s top management under pressure, there are so many reasons for an alleged incompatibility that would put the correct functioning of the operational unit to the test. There are at least eight pathological anatomy healthcare workers from the largest hospital in the province of Brindisi willing to accept sacrifices and inconveniences resulting from a transfer that they even hope for, so as not to share the working environment with the technical coordinator. Among them there are two of the four doctors on duty, a screening biologist, a nurse and four technicians. But two more could be added to the latter.
A union meeting today
Meanwhile, a union meeting has been scheduled for this morning. After that, the workers themselves warn that the letter containing the request for wholesale resignation will be delivered to the general manager. Not only. The position of the coordinator would fall among those of the holders of function positions not yet subjected to the required assessments for the purposes of confirmation or revocation. In this regard, on 15 April, Giuseppe Lacorte, of the CGIL Public Function of Taranto and Brindisi, urged the Brindisi Local Health Authority to fulfill its obligations, specifying that he had not received any response to his previous warning.
The union, among other things, highlights, «as such non-compliance is a violation of a company contractual agreement and constitutes anti-union behavior because it nullifies the content of the union agreement itself, nullifies the work of the union organization and empties the representative powers of content”. The affair involving the coordinator did not go unnoticed even in the eyes of the president of the National Federation of Medical Associations, Filippo Anelliwhich, on the pages of Courier stigmatized the behavior of the employee from Brindisi. Behavior that could not leave the Preliminary Proceedings Office (UPD) of the ASL indifferent, which imposed a six-month suspension on the healthcare worker.
No news on the complaint
Furthermore, it is not known whether the complaint presented against the woman by the provincial medical association to the Brindisi prosecutor’s office had any follow-up. In truth, the general director of the ASL, De Nuccio, took note of the “serious and negligent behavior attributed to an employee”, specifying that the health company “distances itself from any individual action that compromises its integrity and at the same time cannot remain indifferent to these episodes, which however must be ascertained and investigated.” And in fact, following the investigation and investigations by the UPD, the suspension measure, proving the fact that the investigating office noted the seriousness of the behavior of the operator who was then subjected to disciplinary proceedings. Now, after returning to duty, with the sanction served, Isabella Greco’s worries don’t seem to be over.
Her own collaborators are opposing her return to the place where she was the protagonist of episodes censured by many parties and sanctioned by the ASL, raising the question of the alleged environmental incompatibility. In essence, according to healthcare workers, conditions could have been recreated that could compromise the good performance of the department and generate tensions and dysfunctions in the working environment. Obviously, all hypotheses must be verified.
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