The doctors did not like the sentence pronounced by Vincenzo De Luca about the hospitalizations in intensive care in Campania. The day after his words comes the answer: “Publicly and decisively affirm that there is a ‘small percentage of scoundrels who try not to do their duty’, avoiding ICU admissions, especially at 8-8pm, in order to be able to face the night in a more serene way, if referred to the anesthesiologists-resuscitators, the main Intensive Care Operators, it is absolutely offensive for a category of professionals who have been risking their lives every day for many months, to ensure adequate health care to Campania citizens ”, says Giuseppe Galano, Campania president of Aaroi-Emac (Association of Anesthesiologists Italian Hospital Resuscitators Emergency Critical Area) in an open letter to the president of the Region. But what had the governor said? “The feeling is that there are some jokers who, if the requests arrive at eight in the evening, respond that there are no places not to spend the night. Anomaly already recorded in the past on first aid. So we have 99 percent of our staff doing huge jobs but a small percentage of scoundrels who don’t do their duty. We will go all the way to ascertain behavioral anomalies and we will go with an iron fist, ”he argued.
“These statements – explains Galano, who is also head of 118 in Naples – also risk being misleading for public opinion, unjustly catalyzing the ire, concerns and dissatisfactions of the latter, often caused by a system in suffering, on professionals who, on the other hand, sacrifice themselves and their loved ones every day to fulfill their duty. The expression ‘small percentage’ is not enough to avoid that heroes end up being ‘scoundrels’ for the many citizens who, despite themselves too often, are in a spasmodic search for assistance and for alleged system inefficiencies of a culprit, even in a catastrophic epoch-making event like the one we are experiencing for Covid 19. President, you may have missed that the calls from Central 118 are addressed to the referents of the Covid 19 structures that belong to the health departments, so the calls are absolutely not intercepted by resuscitators anesthetists. President De Luca, if he believes that there are ‘unprofessional’ or even delinquent attitudes, in a very delicate historical moment, put in place every possible control to highlight it and, obviously, stem it, punishing the perpetrators as the law provides “.
In a joint note, all the unions took sides against the governor: “We are astonished, amazed by the statements of those who should protect doctors and health professionals who identify, even if minimally, the medical profession as ‘scoundrel'”, they wrote the health care unions.
“Those ‘scoundrels’ – add the trade unions – have been running a regional health system for years because of ‘real scoundrels’ who raped, destroyed, used the health system as an ATM. Those ‘scoundrels’ in this state of crisis have taken the care of thousands of patients on their shoulders despite disservices and disorganization, paying a very high price. Those ‘scoundrels’ risk life in the field every day due to congenital institutional deafness and despite everything they are there and do not hold back. Those ‘scoundrels’ have worked until today with a gag because of the exhausting shifts, the sense of helplessness and frustration and the spirit of self-denial, even more than trash decrees “.
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