Health, Nursing Up De Palma: «While the healthcare crisis in Lombardy worsens day by day, Bertolaso continues with his incomprehensible Magellano project»
ROME 10 JUN 2024 – «Incomprehensible is the right word for us at this moment. We are referring to the gradual and inexorable worsening of our public health crisis, with particular reference to the chronic shortage of personnel and the ineffectiveness of those regional policies, see Lombardy, which persist, it must be said, in seeking tortuous paths , shortcuts that certainly cannot lead to long-term solutions, the ones we inevitably need instead. On the one hand, here it is the Region with the highest number of missing assistance professionals like Campania.
Here is Lombardy, with its chasm, with its unresolved chasm of 10 thousand nurses who, moreover, the recent survey by Federconsumatori presents us as dangerously at the rear in Italy for the times of an exam or a specialist visit. Well yes, the dramatic proven record of 735 days for a cardiac Doppler ultrasound at the Magenta hospital was recorded here. Over two years! And so while alarm bells of this magnitude should push regional governments, in concert with the national one, to finally roll up their sleeves, here, on the other hand, incredibly, projects such as the Magellano Student are being carried forward”
Thus Antonio De Palma, National President of Nursing Up, comments “the initiative to bring 12 other young healthcare professionals from South America to Italy to start an internship with them, at the expense of course of the Region. They will remain here for a semester of study and, from what we learn, after a few weeks of course in Italian, they will also begin to work, we don’t really know at this point with what role, but we imagine they will be supported by a tutor, in some Lombardy RSAs”.
“The target? We struggle to understand it. Bertolaso himself should clarify this for us, if not to include them in our hospitals. We are amazed! Lombardy today risks sinking due to the lack of professionals, faces, in the height of summer, the risk of closure or merging of departments, cuts in beds, but above all it loses 500 nurses every year who flee from the border provinces towards the ‘happy island of Switzerland», continues De Palma.
So someone should make Councilor Bertolaso understand once and for all, in light of investigations with such evident negative contents, that Lombardy’s healthcare system is at risk of implosion day after day, with the increasingly precarious quality of healthcare services offered in the area”, he concludes De Palma.
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