The numbers elaborated by Anaao for 2019. In Emergency and urgency more defections Further contract with a cooperative to cover first aid shifts
IVREA. Piedmont is the fourth region of Italy as a percentage of hospital doctors who decide to resign after Marche, Veneto and Valle d’Aosta. In 2019, 24 out of 622 doctors resigned in the Asl / To4, equal to 3.9%, more than the Piedmontese average (3%), much less than the company where the phenomenon was found to be greater (6.4%, ASL of Alessandria).
The numbers, which emerged from the Treasury’s annual account, were put together by the medical union Anaao Assomed and show, in summary, how work in the hospital is no longer attractive and in certain regions and healthcare companies it is even less so.
In Piedmont, in 2019, 292 people resigned. The historical percentage of discharge says that in 2009 1% left their place in hospital, ten years later it is 2.5%. “The specialties with major defections are Reanimation and Emergency Medicine because they involve many uncomfortable shifts and a tiring job – explain from the Piedmontese secretariat of Anaao – Pediatrics because it offers attractive outlets in the area and, subsequently, Orthopedics and Gynecology, which allow you to work in the private sector “. The curve, from 2019, reached its minimum in 2011. From 2015 it began to grow significantly. “We can bet that the Covid pandemic – underline from Anaao – will aggravate the spills and we will probably see it from this year because in 2020 the spirit of service has certainly postponed the decision to resign”. Why is hospital work no longer attractive? Anaao has already reiterated this several times and it is a list of problems ranging from staff cuts and the shortage of specialists who have created ever smaller staff «making the workload unsustainable. The presence of women in health care is progressively increasing and the awkward shifts provided by hospital work do not allow, especially for them, to devote themselves to the family as they would like “. And in fact, more women than men resigned (3.2% against 2.8%). Anaao again cites “bureaucratic work that has become intolerable, decision-making autonomy debased, the absence of involvement in the decision-making process, loneliness in the face of organizational deficiencies and deficiencies, the risk of legal complaints and aggressions”.
Also in Asl / To4, the lack of specialists in pediatrics and in emergency and urgency has forced several times, over the last few years, to acrobatics to maintain the services.
In the ASL / To4 emergency rooms, for example (the data is January), 11 out of 60 doctors are hired. The other 49 are all freelancers provided by Medicali line consulting with a contract renewed at the end of 2018.
But that’s not enough. In fact, the resolution signed by the ASL / To4 commissioner Luigi Vercellino is at the end of April, assigning the Novamedica cooperative of Bologna the medical on-call service for the brief intensive observation of the Goddess of Ciriè for the months of May and June at a cost of 54,500 euros. . –