The Regional Secretary of the SMI (Italian Doctors Union) Campania, Giovanni Senese rejects the accusations against general practitioners for the paralysis of the hospitals in the region.
The SMI distances itself from this latest smear campaign against general medicine by some print media.
"This latest harsh attack on the medical profession is not only completely gratuitous and unjustified, but also unmotivated and, above all, unfounded, deserving of due clarification," writes Senese.
And then she adds: "It's clear that the current National Collective Agreement for General Practice is being completely ignored, which establishes the closure of medical practices on pre-holidays and holidays. However, by completely ignoring the inefficiencies of the Regional Health Service (SSR), it places the blame for the poor governance of healthcare in Campania on family doctors.
General practitioners say enough to this latest smear campaign against them: they say enough to these crude attacks by those who tend to blame on general medicine a complete lack of vision of health in Campania on serious professionals dedicated to their work well beyond the five days a week; they say enough to this gratuitous target practice against general medicine; they say enough to these insults that increase hatred and aim to interrupt the doctor-patient relationship of trust.
The health crisis in Campania comes from afar, and precisely from years of bad governance, from chronic shortages of the organic plant in 118 (from which doctors flee due to the complete disorganization in which it finds itself), from decades of shortages of health workers in hospital organic plants, from the closures of emergency rooms, from the failure to establish Flu-Points in cases of autumn viral emergencies and in all this the general practitioners have absolutely nothing to do with it. All this is the result of bad governance of the Campania region in terms of health!
In defending Family Doctors, the SMI specifies that they do well beyond their part in the Health Panorama in Campania and I am referring to the continuous undue tasks and the obligations continually transferred to them by the ASL and the reference Districts (such as undue therapeutic plans), all without holidays, without sick leave, continuously harassed by bureaucratic obligations, and with the highest contribution of deaths in their category due to Covid during the pandemic.
We will not be the scapegoat of a system that does not work and that has only one person responsible for "healthcare mismanagement" in fact we can state with certainty that the only thing that works in Campania is General Medicine without which the entire health system would have imploded.
In fact, we see ambulances without a doctor on board circulating and the intervention of doctors from the Continuity of Care is continuously requested to make up for the staff shortages of family doctors who, in addition to their own hours of surgery, are forced to work well over 10 hours a day between house calls and bureaucratic obligations.
It is easy to point the finger when you do not want to seriously address the problems but it is unfair, ungenerous, unfounded and dangerous to denigrate and blame the inefficiencies of the Regional Health Service on the only thing that works in Campania, that is, General Medicine.
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