The National President of the Italian Nurses Union, Antonio De Palma (Nursing Up) replies “in rhyme” to the Deputy Minister of Health Hon. Sileri: “promises salary increases of 25 percent for nurses and doctors”.
Antonio De Palma, National President of the Italian Nursing Union (Nursing Up), spoke about the new commitment that Vice Minister Sileri promises to undertake for Italian nurses and doctors, guaranteeing, for both, in the short term a 25 percent increase in pay.
De Palma is not there and reminds the Deputy Minister Pierpaolo Sileri their face to face last June: «Even that day he guaranteed us immediate interventions and a concrete and lasting commitment for the increase in pay that we deserve and have been waiting for for some time. But where was she when a few days ago we informed her with a certified e-mail that we would have an attempt at conciliation at the Ministry of Labor to avoid the strike? Today, on the other hand, once again giving promises of “Collodian memory”, you once again equate the needs of us nurses with those of doctors: dear Sileri, you can’t, it’s not possible, I don’t expect it from you as a doctor! Put the salary of a nurse on the same level as that of a doctor! Yet she worked with us side by side, she should know that for a doctor an increase in pay of 25 percent can even reach 800 euros, while for us it is just over 100. We asked her for concreteness, not empty words. We are finally waiting for you to take the situation in hand, for you to confront Minister Speranza and for you to be given the levers you need to act, without hesitation! On the other hand, you are a Deputy Minister!
And while we read in these days of commitments that you have not completed to date, in Naples, at Cardarelli, eight colleagues have already been infected by Covid: and Campania, our Deputy Minister knows, is not ready at all to become a new Lombardy!
We put our face to it, dear Deputy Minister, we constantly expose ourselves to risk and are ready to face the enemy again. We were able to tolerate the marks on the face, the grueling hours, the distance from families and even illness. But we are not willing to give way to indifference and teasing », concludes De Palma disappointed.
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