The Adige of Verona Medici. Veneto hires 500 freelancers

There is a shortage of doctors. The Veneto then he takes action and hires 500 freelancers to reduce waiting lists and let me breathe Emergency room. And the responses to the tenders published by the Region were higher than expectations, as commented by the general director of regional health, Massimo Annichiarico.

495 doctors enrolled at 60/90 euros an hour

The freelancers will establish a direct specialist medicine relationship with the Ulss and will be paid an amount between 60 and 80 euros per hour. Moderate prices, if you think about what a plumber costs. To be precise, 495 of the white coats responded, including several who were forced to retire by the absurd law that sets the age limit at 70, but who still have the desire and ability to work.

The regional measure aims to create a direct relationship with white coats freelancers currently going to cap 42,061 hospital shiftsamong which 15,490 in reception and emergency room, 9,990 carried out by anesthetists in operating rooms and intensive care units, 3,729 shifts in Obstetrics and Gynecology, e 2,604 shifts in Pediatrics and the others in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Radiology. They are the famous ones token operatorsrate of around 100 euros per hour, which covers the gap left by lack of 3,500 doctors of regional public health.

An urgent measure to respond to an increasingly pressing emergency. Something different from token operatorsbut aimed at the same purpose. Similar cost. Implicit admission thatas well as, the National Health Service can’t take it anymore, can no longer guarantee the services promised to those who pay taxes. And so those who, more than others, are aware of the responsibility they have towards users, have decided to turn to private initiative. And they did well.

THE hospital unions hey presidents of medical associations they can come and tell us as long as they want number of doctors it’s enough, given that it is actually higher than the European average for the doctor/inhabitant ratio. Or even tell us that in a few years there will be far too many doctors forced to ask for a job on their knees. It will be… It’s a shame, however, that this divinatory power that they now show off to defend the closed numberhave not exercised it in the last 20 years, when the planning of admissions to Medicine was wrong, which proved to be seriously insufficient.

Let them go and tell it to those who don’t find a place in the waiting lists or what they are forced to do 10 hours tail at the emergency room! Or, much more simply, to those regional managers who have to pay freelance doctors to guarantee that minimum of essential services to NHS users.

Then they are token operators or ‘enlisted’ freelancers pro tempore by the Ulss, little changes. Because the underlying problem remains. Because the mechanism is more or less the same and so is the expense. If it’s not zupa, it’s pan bagna!