(Adnkronos)
“A tragic average of 350 nurses still get sick from Covid every day, almost a year after the start of the pandemic. From 25 December to today, 12,988 health workers have been infected, and by comparing the data of the Higher Institute of Health with those of the last quarter of Inail, it emerges that 82% are nurses. So very little has changed since February bankruptcy safety criteria the daily working life of our professionals. “This was reported by Antonio De Palma, national president of the Nursing Up nurses’ union.
“There will be a bitter, but very specific reason – he continues – on the basis of which our ‘soldiers at the front’, the most exposed to risk, with 68 official deaths to date, have continued to fall ill with this speed. we ask periodically swabs carried out by all staff, quick tests before the start of each shift cycle. Such negative figures, which do not in any way experience a substantial decline, demonstrate the nefarious organizational management between the first and second wave, when the decrease in infections in the summer season should have urged the Government and Regions to implement a concrete plan of measures that would have allowed greater protection of the health of the personnel “.
The leader of the nurses reminds once again that “the blanket is tragically short: 90 thousand colleagues are missing”. And that “the nurses of many regional realities also work shifts in Covid and non-Covid wards on the same day, see the Naples Sea Hospital, where the professionals who are there, fewer in number than ever, get by at best, in situations where , with questionable safety criteria, the absence of efficient continuous protocols for carrying out tampons, without the necessary replacement of personnel, the nurse can become a smear of colleagues and patients without of course having any fault. While the assumptions, the real ones and on a permanent basis – he concludes – they continue to be pure utopia “.
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