Savona. “For a long time now the National Health System has been affected by the very serious crisis due to the shortage of specialist doctors”. The alarm comes from the Order of Doctors of the province of Savona.
“The situation has been known for years, reported by the National Federation of Orders of Surgeons and Dentists (FNOMCeO) and by various medical unions for at least 10 years if not more. In 2010, during an important congress held in Savona there was an important report by the president of the FNOMCeO dott. Amedeo Bianco who presented the projections of the decrease curve of doctors for the following years with extreme concern. Well in the following years we are now, the data presented in 2010 by Dr. Bianco are now real, they are no longer predictions but reality, confirming the accuracy of the calculations performed 10 years ago ”.
“All previous governments have shown not only indifference towards the problem but, in my opinion, are largely and maliciously responsible for the current and dramatic situation.”
“The shortage of specialist doctors is now a national emergency as reported by an interesting ANAAO study which notes that there has been“ a total failure of programming the number of specialists ”in the various regions and various disciplines. Added to this is also the incorrect programming of the scholarships needed to access the training course for general practitioners ”explain the Order of Doctors.
“In the face of more than 10,000 graduates per year, scholarships are not enough for everyone, over the years a reservoir has formed, which we call” limbo “, of non-specialist doctors which is estimated to be at least 13,000 who cannot enter to be part of the NHS staff because they do not have a specialization diploma or a training course for general medicine “.
And again: “To this must be added the lack of attractiveness of our profession, in particular for some specializations that are most in crisis such as Emergency and Emergency Medicine which in 2018 saw only 32% of the allocation of available places, Anesthesia and Intensive Care which had 40% of assignment, General Surgery with 31%, some others more coveted, because they are certainly more profitable and which allow you to work in the freelance profession or in the private agreement have instead a percentage of assignment of places close to 100% as Plastic Surgery, Ophthalmology, Dermatology “.
“With regard to the situation in our region and in our province, it is emphasized that due to the shortage of specialist doctors and doctors who have completed the training course in General Medicine, it has not been possible to assign all the areas lacking the latter and that more and more often the competitions to hire hospital doctors, particularly in the branches most in crisis such as the emergency, either go deserted or see the participation of only one or two doctors ”concludes the Order of Doctors of Savona.
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