On 18 June, a national meeting of Filctem/CGIl was held at the Milan Chamber of Labor, which had Scientific Information as its theme.
The meeting was necessary given the recent entry into force of the renewed CCNL, which led to significant changes to the professional figure of the ISF, and the persistence of the state of crisis in the pharmaceutical sector which has led and continues to lead to the redundancy of thousands of workers, in particular of scientific representatives.
The figures presented are dramatic because over 8,000 FSIs have lost their jobs in recent years alone and the current number of employed FSIs would be around 12,000.
Secretary Falcinelli's report, aimed at analyzing the causes that led to this serious situation, highlighted how the pharmaceutical sector, while not going through a state of financial crisis, complains of a state of structural crisis resulting from the foolish policies of the past in which instead of focusing on research and development, the main focus was on increasing turnover by simply increasing the commercial pressure on the medical profession.
Other factors that have been cited among those that have played an important role in determining the current crisis are: the advent of generic drugs, the rules introduced by the ministry aimed at curbing the prescription of branded drugs, and the repeated government maneuvers aimed at reducing the pharmaceutical spending ceiling, both at a territorial and hospital level.
In this sense, a negative opinion was expressed on the maneuvers of the AIFA which, for reasons of drug economy, decided a priori to exclude some innovative drugs, penalizing the therapeutic possibilities of doctors and patients.
It has been observed that in any case the generication of drugs is never a sudden and unexpected fact thus reiterating that both careful planning and a policy prone to innovation and research have been lacking on the part of the company.
The changes introduced to the professional figure of the ISF, according to the opinion of the national secretariat, should have served to make a job more attractive to companies which otherwise, as defined by law, would have run even greater occupational risks
