Emergency room, reinforcements arrive. The hospital company Moscato di Avellino hires six new doctors to assign to the emergency department. A resolution “with immediate execution, given the urgency”, we read in the deed signed by Renato Pizzuti.
The number one of Contrada Amoretta, therefore, is trying to put a stop to the serious inconveniences experienced by both healthcare workers and users, due to the serious shortage of staff. Until a week ago there were only 11 white coats in the emergency room (including a retired doctor who only works daily shifts and 4 emergency medicine doctors). At 45, however, nurses on duty in the department directed by Antonino Maffei (two, however, are on maternity leave). A worrying total, therefore, is that of the healthcare professionals called to provide for the approximately fifty patients who, on average, are cared for daily in the facility.
A situation of which the general director of Moscati was evidently aware, so much so that, on Tuesday, he signed the implementing resolution for the immediate hiring of the white coats. These are two doctors specializing in emergency medicine, who arrive at Moscati with a permanent contractand four specialists. The latter, who will initially provide a part-time service, will be stabilized as soon as the specialization course is completed. The resources come from the list of winners drawn up following the competition recently created by Palazzo Santa Lucia precisely to respond to the exasperating staff shortage in the emergency rooms of the five provinces of Campania. In February this year, the Region announced a tender procedure to identify 363 medical managers to be included in the Emergency Departments of the entire Campania region.
Despite the selection was almost empty in terms of number of participants and with only 62 candidates found eligible, the Avellino hospital was able to benefit from its final ranking. Moscati, on the other hand, had already attempted to fill the vacant positions in the Emergency Department in January by launching an internal competition. A selection carried out by the Company which, however, has now been suspended while the regional suitable list is drawn up. In the frantic search for doctors who agree to operate on Emergency roomIn short, it is better to choose the certain path.
The Coordination of the regional health system also establishes this, as stated in the hiring resolution, reiterating the need to favor the use of current competitive rankings, instead of calling for new procedures”, for which the Moscati Company considered «to proceed with the use of ranking of the single competition regional”. Returning to the injection of medical personnel in recent days, net of any resignations in the next period, the Emergency Department will undoubtedly be able to work with less hassle. A measure which, moreover, arrives just in time to take action in view of the summer. From June, that is, the hospital will have to take into account the holiday periods of its employees and, at the same time, respond to growing overcrowding. Therefore, in addition to hiring, an overcrowding management plan should be defined as soon as possible.
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