Healthcare No Vax, 1,200 use the Tar – Chronicle

The Tuscany will not wait for the pronunciation of the Tar regarding the suspension of the appeal presented by approx 1,200 healthcare professionals (mostly nurses and Oss rather than doctors), set for 6 September. In fact, as early as next week, the first acts of ascertaining the non-fulfillment of the vaccination obligation will be notified. There are about 7,000 in Tuscany, health professionals who have not yet responded to the vaccination obligation imposed by national law and valid until 31 December 2021, and who have not given any response to the first reminder sent by the Prevention departments of health companies. The second and last appeal: letters by certified mail (to members of the various professional associations) and registered mail (for workers in the health sector who do not have an order) have been sent. And the time to regularize the position for many is over.

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After yesterday’s meeting with the Department of Health of the Tuscany Region, the last one is scheduled today meeting with the trade unions. The assessment will be sent by the Prevention departments of the Local Health Authorities at the end of the time required by the law, some of which have now come to an end.

The CGIL points out the problem of shortage of staff: “It is not yet clear which professional profiles are most involved, we do not have the lists for privacy reasons – explains the CGIL delegate in the RSU of the ASL Tuscany center, Simone Baldacci -. But if nurses were suspended from one day to the next, how? many regions have already done so, there would be a risk of the closure of many services. The suspension is right but must be accompanied by the necessary substitutions “.

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The question is a lot delicate: said that unfortunately even vaccinated people can become infected and transmit the virus and that in Pistoia an unvaccinated nurse infected 5 patients, in the presence of a law that obliges health workers to immunize, what would happen if the disease were to be fatal for a patient? Who would pay the inevitable consequences, the employer who has not suspended or moved the unvaccinated professional to other tasks and who else? “Precisely to avoid reaching extreme consequences it is essential to intervene immediately in compliance with the law”, explains the regional councilor for health Simone Bezzini. In this match, the Tuscany Region coordinates operations, provides lists and addresses of professionals and employers. Local health authorities are the operating arm.

But who is up to theformal act of suspension? “The orders suspend the professional from exercising the activity, but the employers, whether public or private, must apply the suspension without salary until the end of the year, or move the worker to services away from assistance”, concludes Bezzini. The various orders of nurses are doing a personalized campaign, calling the professionals one by one. “But there is a hard core that we will probably not be able to convince, on ideological reasons the obligatory nature of medical treatment is contested”, explains Danilo Massai, president of the Order of Nurses of Florence and Pistoia.

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