Genoa, the CGIL alarm: “Due to holidays, illness and staff shortages, the San Martino will lack various professional figures”. The management: “We will hire 200 nurses”

Genoa – “At San Martino it will be forced to reduce the number of beds or to plan mergers with the simultaneous closure of some services to give personnel to operational units such as resuscitation, operating theaters, dialysis, first aid, emergency traumatology and hospice. “This was reported, in a note, by the Fp Cgil of the San Martino hospital in Genoa. According to the union, “the perfect storm is coming. On average 150 operators are stopped because for the prevalence they are positive for Covid. Last March, the president Toti and Alisa had announced the guidelines linked to the recruitment plan for competitive channels and the stabilization process in public health. Today, except for bankruptcy procedures, we are stopped with announcements. The heroes of the pandemic, even those who had to be stabilized but who at the moment remain precarious, are forced to continuous shifts which undermine their physical safety and in the meantime summer will arrive and the need for staff to take vacation “.

The public function of the CGIL also points out that “the staff of San Martino is not composed solely of nurses and social and health workers, but of many and different professionals who are also in trouble, so much so that some of these workers are at risk denial of the use of summer holidays. Currently, 21 radiology technicians are missing16 laboratory technicians of which six units only transfusion, 15 professional physiotherapists, nine midwives “.

In short, the union concludes, “a rapid intervention is needed on the part of the Region and the hospital that includes further investment of resources on hiring and the launch of new competition courses for all the figures involved, this in order to guarantee the adequate need for personnel that also includes the replacement of absences due to rights such as maternity and 104 “.

To solicit the intervention of the junta, too the leader of the Democratic Party in the regional council, Luca Garibaldi. “In view of the summer, how does the Liguria Region intend to fill the shortage of staff at the San Martino?”, Asks the dem in a note. Garibaldi, after the alarm raised this morning by the CGIL, also heralds the presentation of a question in the courtroom.

“Investments and resources are needed for new hires, to ensure an adequate number of professional figures that allow all workers to have adequate shifts – affirms the dem, making the appeal of the union their own – in view of the summer, the hospital, to allow staff to take vacation, it could be forced to reduce the number of beds or merge services. A problem that will involve not only doctors, nurses, and health workers, but all the staff who revolve around the hospital and who guarantee its functioning. President Toti, as well as councilor for health, intervenes and starts paths for new hires and stabilizations “.

Il San Martino: “We will hire 200 nurses”

On the basis of what emerged in the trade union notes during the day, the Management of the San Martino Polyclinic Hospital specifies that as regards the personnel of the laboratory and radiology technicians, they are in line with those of previous years and organizational changes are underway by part of the Directorate of Health Professions. Otherwise, as regards the nursing part, the regional competition managed by Alisa will begin on Thursday, with more than 7,000 members. And only at the end of the same competition will the San Martino Polyclinic be able to hire more than 200 permanent nurses.