The appeal, now, is all to health workers: getting vaccinated is a duty. The orders of doctors and nurses ask their members in the face of the risk of a low adhesion in some areas of Italy, the impact of which is still to be measured. According to the infectious disease specialist of San Martino di Genova, Matteo Bassetti, “a law had to be made first” to make the vaccine mandatory for all health personnel: “We will see at the national level what coverage will be at the end of February. At that point, action will have to be taken. I believe that in a hospital, a health facility, an RSA can only enter those who have had the vaccine, those who have not done so are not right to work. We need to have 100% coverage, there is no 80-85%. From health workers, anyone must be vaccinated ». Even those who have already had Covid: “The data tell us that immunity lasts 8 months, but we still have to get vaccinated because, in any case, it gives a shot to the immune system that is much broader and stronger than what a ‘natural infection’.
The risks of poor adherence seem to be greater among social and health workers of the RSA. The situation in Lombardy is particularly critical, where, for example, just “20% of the operators of the Brescia RSA have joined the vaccination campaign. Too little, ”said Ats Brescia CEO Claudio Sileo. “We will do everything to convince colleagues to get vaccinated,” assured Stefania Pace, president of the Brescia nursing professions. For this reason, just yesterday Asst Spedali di Brescia and the university launched a #stoCOnlaSCIENZA awareness campaign, also aimed at health professionals. It is no better in Piedmont where Anaste (national association of third-age structures) surveyed a thousand employees out of 3,800: 70% said they were against the vaccine. In Tuscany, on the other hand, a larger share took part, 8,700 out of 11,000 operators. However, numbers far from 100%.
It’s better in hospitals. According to a survey reported by the Campania governor Vincenzo De Luca carried out in the ASL of Naples, “80% responded enthusiastically to the request for vaccinations”. Instead, in a survey of health agencies in South Tyrol only 30% answered the question about whether or not they intend to get vaccinated. And 40% technicians and nurses said no. The adhesion among doctors surveyed by the primary doctors in the ward is higher, but Anaao, the union of hospital doctors, is addressing the white coats with concern: «Get vaccinated».
This is why on the day of V-Day, appeals to doctors multiply throughout Italy: «For us doctors, vaccinating is a deontological obligation. Obligation towards patients, with whom we will discuss in the coming months, and towards an entire community ”, reiterates the president of the Medical Order of Taranto, Cosimo Nume. The National Federation of Nurses (Fnopi), recalls that the category “is the first in terms of the number of infections (over 50 thousand since the beginning of the pandemic and have increased, on average, by 300 per day) and for proximity to the sick for whom ‘only contact with the outside world’. Barbara Mangiacavalli, president of the order in Lombardy was among the first vaccinated and recalls that «for a nurse it is a duty towards citizens, towards colleagues and also towards the science in which we believe. The nursing profession adheres to the imperative principle of protecting people’s health and recognizes the value of scientific evidence as the basis of its action “. Lombardy has established that in each province the presidents of the orders of doctors and nurses were the first to be vaccinated. One way, too, to amplify the message.
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