At San Luigi in Orbassano, in the four hospitals of the City of Health and at Santi Antonio e Biagio in Alessandria, only six out of ten employees said they were willing to be vaccinated. The percentage at the Maggiore hospital in Novara is much higher, where 83% of workers will be vaccinated. Pending the final company-by-company data, this is the record of membership for the moment.
The questionnaires sent to all Piedmontese companies to test their willingness to undergo the vaccine were delivered last night. At Mauriziano the balance ends with 78.8 percent yes, and the cleaning company operators are also counted in the list. At the Amedeo di Savoia, says the director of infectious diseases Giovanni Di Perri, “The adhesion among doctors was 100%” and it would be really curious if the doctors on the front line in the hospital where infectious diseases are treated were to refuse the vaccine. The number of adhesions grows in Cuneo, where 78 percent of employees agree to be vaccinated. Figures that instead fall if we move from hospitals to companies: 60% in Cuneo 1 and the same in Cuneo2: “But we will call everyone regardless of the information received with the questionnaire – says the general manager Massimo Veglio – In the meantime someone could be convinced”.
Much depends on the departments where you work, but the reactions are not the same in all hospitals: at San Luigi (1,800 employees, including cleaners) all resuscitators have joined, says Gabriele Gallone, occupational doctor. The participation in external cleaning firms is much lower: only 15 percent. The monitoring that closed in Orbassano reveals, for example, that only half of the students are in favor, but many have enrolled in the Red Cross list where they serve and where they will get the vaccine together with other volunteers.
The picture of what will really happen starting from the first days of January is not yet very clear: employees already infected by Covid will be called to the queue, says Carlo Picco, the general manager of the ASL City of Turin. To Giovanni Bosco 80 percent of the health workers said Yes. The separated data of the City of Health, with its four hospitals, Molinette, Sant’Anna, Cto and Regina Margherita are interesting. The trend seems to be the opposite of that of the San Luigi: among employees and contracted staff memberships are 60 percent while for the staff of external companies and volunteers the figures rise to 70 percent.
The director of the ASL City of Turin Carlo Picco announces an information campaign to convince the undecided or the skeptical: “Not everyone has detailed information on the vaccine. Let’s try to convince them. We have time before the vaccination begins.”
On Sunday 27 December, the Region has set V-Day, an early departure for vaccinations and both the Giovanni Bosco hospital and the Amedeo di Savoia hospital will participate in the first symbolic day, when the first doses of the anti-Covid vaccine will be before the official departure of January. “That day I will be the first to get the vaccine,” says Picco.
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