The work of the III commission of the Puglia Region (Healthcare and social services) chaired by councilor Mauro Vizzino, today saw the hearing requested by councilor Antonio Paolo Scalera on the critical issues of the nursing staff of the SS. Annunziata of Taranto and on the lack of social and health workers. Scalera highlighted the need for interventions in short topics, especially for the situation of the Santissima Annunziata hospital, where there would be “situations bordering on healthcare collapse due to lack of nurses and health workers”.
The president of the nurses’ association of the province of Taranto also raised it the problem of replacements, all the more urgent during the summer holidays, for which the insolvency procedures have not yet been started. Or rather, which the ASL, as said by the personnel manager of the ASL Taranto, Eustacchio Marcusano, would also be ready to start, following the approval of the hiring plans by the council, but which are in fact blocked by the constitutional challenge of law 16 of 2024 which concentrates insolvency procedures in the Aress.
The director of the Health Department, Vito Montanari, explained that ways would be identified to overcome the impasse and launch public notices and competitions, for example by distributing them among various local health authorities, and only the green light of the councilor, President Michele, is needed Emiliano. In his opinion, the times will still be very quick. “The hiring plans that followed one another in 2023 and 2024 involve an increase of 1500 units of healthcare personnel compared to the terminations with an annual expense of 74 million euros,” explained Montanaro, “these are hospital personnel. For Taranto, hirings worth 22 million euros have been authorized on an annual basis”. However, he reiterated that all hirings are exclusively related to covering retirements and terminations. Only for the new hospitals in Monopoli and Taranto will it be possible to have supplementary staffing plans, as they are new structures.
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