PRESS RELEASE Nursing Up Romagna Union
But to what extent do they want to destroy the AUSL Romagna probably most citizens, those who have been lucky enough not to need healthcare services regularly, have not noticed the disastrous decline that our Romagna healthcare system is facing!
If the appeal of our hospital facilities is severely penalized, as seen by the low participation in the public competition with the need to issue an additional call for qualifications for fixed-term hires, much of the responsibility lies with a management totally detached from reality. The dehumanization and arrogance in relations with employees have, since the Covid period, created a toxic work environment where the motivational mission of professionals has been completely nullified by authoritarian managers who are absolutely insensitive to the enormous sacrifice that workers made both during and after Covid!
The ongoing voluntary resignations even of professionals with 20-25 years of service (a great loss of professional capital!), young graduates who prefer to emigrate abroad or go into the private sector or become freelancers, have dangerously depleted the healthcare staff, who are increasingly "older" and exhausted by grueling shifts!
Now they are also putting their hands on the flagship of public healthcare, the Emergency Service 118. After the failure of the CAUs (which never reduced the ER waiting times), with a constant and continuous exodus of doctors and nurses from our Emergency Rooms, especially in Ravenna and Forlì, and then waiting for the chaos in the coastal ERs during the summer period, Rimini first and foremost, after having removed doctors from the emergency vehicles, now they are removing nurses to give the place to "lay" crews, the Emilian system that is being introduced in Romagna. Nurses, I want to point out, who for some years have been forced, under penalty of forced removal from the 118 service, to undergo a training course of dozens of hours with a very high acquisition of skills (without any certifying title being issued to highlight the high level of training), perhaps unique in the entire national territory, will now find themselves as "surplus" and perhaps relocated as "fill-ins"—an insult added to injury!
But how long will this Management be allowed to continue dismantling public healthcare, a management endorsed by the CTSS of mayors, endorsed by the region with the recent reconfirmation of the General Director? What else should we expect in the future while, in the meantime, the wards are being emptied of the best professionals?
Gianluca Gridelli - Nursing Up Romagna Secretariat
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