Campania without doctors, De Luca: “Ask Meloni”

The governor is freewheeling on healthcare: “Disconcerting, soon there won’t be doctors to open the emergency rooms”

NAPLES – “Is there a lack of healthcare personnel? You’ll have to tell Meloni this who instead of sending us the doctors, sends us the name. We have been fighting for two years now, we have explained to everyone that soon there won’t be doctors to open the emergency rooms. But there is no awareness of the drama of the situation and it is frankly disconcerting.” The president of the Campania Region Vincenzo De explained it Luca who participated today in the inauguration of the new CT scan at the Gaetano Fucito Hospital in Mercato San Severino (Sa). “We have just concluded a single regional competition to search for emergency doctors throughout the regional territory – recalled the governor of Campania – and in the end we have found around fifty doctors for all the regional structures. We will have some breathing space, but this is not the solution to the problem.”

“THE SOLUTION? DOUBLE THE SALARY FOR EMERGENCY DOCTORS”

“The solution – De Luca remarked – is to double the salaries for emergency doctorswho do absolutely strenuous work, reduce the retirement age, allow young doctors, graduates attending specialization schools, to have permanent contracts to be used immediately in hospital facilities.

THE NUMBER CLOSED TO MEDICINE

“And then, erase this shame of limited numbers in Medicine. They made an announcement but, as always happens with this government, they stopped at the announcement.” “Every year – again the president of the Region – 20 thousand doctors are leaving Italy either for retirement or because they reach other parts of the world where they have salaries that are triple compared to Italy. If they go ahead with differentiated autonomy, healthcare in the South is dead: differentiated autonomy means that the Northern Regions will be able to make, in addition to the national employment contract, also regional contracts in addition to the national ones and, having the resources, they can double or triple staff salaries. So the South is dead, beyond all the talk.”