The scandal of the 14,000 doctors left out of hospitals

VENICE They are giving up contracts in local medicine and cannot enter hospital wards. At a time when doctors are worth their weight in gold, there are almost them 24 thousand pending in a kind of limbo. After yet another stop imposed by State Council A fuss is being raised about the case of medical graduates who, on 22 September last, took part in the competition for one of the 14 thousand specialization grants available in Italy. At least five postponements to the publication of the rankings. The last Thursday evening when the Minister of University and Scientific Research Gaetano Manfredi warned that the assignments of the locations where to carry out the specialization were not yet available. Yet 14 thousand of these doctors, according to the Miur time schedule, should have started the training course as early as 30 December. In this way there are 14 thousand doctors who do not enter hospitals and another 10 thousand who, although excluded from specialization, are giving up working on the territory, a very fundamental commitment in a period of pandemic.

FROM THE NORTHEST “Many of us have renounced to sign contracts with the Usca, the special operational continuity units for Covid cases, because they included commitments until 2021, in fact beyond the start date of specialization” explains Gianluca Regazzo, 30, graduate in Medicine in Padua and spokesperson for the MUS, the Doctors united health association born in the Northeast, but which through a tam-tam is networking doctors from all over Italy. Regazzo belongs to the 1,700 candidates who took the test in Veneto and who aspire to the 1,100 places available in Veneto universities, to which the 90 added by the Region must be added. Whoever has the highest score and the richest curriculum will access the chosen location, all the others will go to specialize in other universities. This involves moving outside the region and looking for accommodation, complex operations with the movement restrictions imposed by the contagion curve. The press release from the ministry limited itself to explaining that the rankings were suspended because the Council of State accepted «the precautionary appeal proposed by the Mur against the appeals of some candidates in relation to question no. 87 », adding that the Council Chamber is set for 15 December. All postponed then close to Christmas. In fact, this latest slip revolves around question 87 of the admission test, in which candidates were asked to look at an X-ray and recognize the fracture of a femur. But in some competition venues, an adequate blackboard for reading the X-ray was not available. Hence the appeals and the stop to the rankings of the Council of State.

PROTEST The letter sent to Minister Manfredi left yesterday from Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia, but protests have exploded throughout Italy. “Minister Manfredi – introduces the letter – in this affair there are many victims, but the real executioner is the system of the competition announcement which after the modifications of the masterpiece presented structural problems”. Hence the avalanche of appeals that it has brought back and the delays in an emergency phase for health. Many positions have been taken by the president of the National Federation of Orders of Surgeons and Dentists (Fnomceo), Filippo Anelli who asks to “put an end to the infinite and paradoxical story of the competition for specialization schools, which could be the plot of a Kafka’s novel or the script of a Beckett’s work and allow as many young colleagues as possible to access post-graduate training courses ». Infectious disease specialist Matteo Bassetti also speaks of a “hallucinatory thing” who writes on social media: “We are in a health emergency, we need doctors and we have asked for more specialists for resuscitation, infectious diseases and microbiology and then over 13 thousand postgraduates are blocked by what is not known. ” In the same vein, the virologist Roberto Burioni: “It is essential to unblock the situation and immediately bring these young forces into the ward”. Anaao Giovani and Associazione Libera trainees (ALS) say they are “disgusted by the umpteenth postponement of assignments”. Finally, Carlo Calenda, leader of Action: “The way in which the Italian government is treating the 24 thousand medical graduates who want to specialize is simply shameful”.

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