The lack of personnel is the tragedy of a healthcare system that in Calabria is incapable of treating even ordinary illnesses. The complaints, the distant voices of an inhuman system are the result of thirteen years of commissionership and incorrect planning of needs (at central level) which have reduced the response capacity of our hospitals. Those few remaining doctors and nurses struggle to ensure everyone has an answer which in the end remains the only real satisfaction to the effort. A concept that cannot be understood unless one lives the experience in the wards where care and assistance are guaranteed with unconventional weapons. A plot that reveals the controversial scenario that inevitably forces us to monitor the response capacity of some departments of the Annunziata. In the last hours the leader of the CGIL, Massimiliano Ianniand the secretary of the civil service of the union, Alexander Iulianothey put pen to paper «the serious critical issues encountered and reported by the nurses in the Annunziata Operating Room, due in part to a reduced nursing staff and partly to a deteriorated internal climate due to organizational management, which can be reviewed to say the least, which requires immediate and urgent interventions to avoid even more serious consequences”. From those lines you can feel the anxiety of the nurses which turns into discomfort and bitterness at no longer being able to guarantee the minimum essential levels of assistance. The CGIL insists: «Since December, after a meeting with the workers of the Operating Block, we had highlighted major problems which, despite the immediate reporting to the commissioner, Vitaliano De Salazar, and to the highest authority in the field of sector personnel as well as Sitra department director, Carla Catania, have not been resolved to date. The shortage of nursing staff has worsened further in recent months. A collapse due to an increase in surgical activities without taking into account the number of nurses available. A situation that “forced” 14 instrumental nurses, out of a total of 27, against their will, to request a transfer to send a clear signal to company top management.
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