Milillo: healthcare is finally entering the government's agenda. Head: We will verify if the government's commitments are true
"It was more than a moment of listening to our alarm signals on the stability of the system, we can say with satisfaction that from today health care and the medical question are back on the front pages of the government agenda". This is how Giacomo Milillo, national secretary of Fimmg, the union of family doctors, comments on the outcome of the meeting with the Executive, which led to the suspension of the two-day strike, which had been proclaimed for 17 and 18 March by all medical categories.
“We are not beating cash to obtain who knows what increases, we just want to make the Government understand that between cuts, demotivation and marginalization of doctors we risk leaving a public health system in collapse for the patients. And I think I can say – continues Milillo – that our concerns have been shared this time”.
"Compared to the closures of recent months - comments Milillo - it is a positive fact not to have left with a pat on the back but with a concrete commitment to open permanent discussion tables on the most thorny issues, also involving the MIUR in the future".
According to the national secretary of Fimmg, this presence “must make it possible to solve the problems of pre- and post-graduate training, starting with a serious planning of access to specializations to avoid creating new unemployed people in the future.
Just as it is necessary that the specialization in surgery is based on greater experience in the field".
"The decision to set up the discussion tables goes in the right direction, but now -continues the national secretary of Fimmg- it is essential that the Government takes action, guaranteeing the economic sustainability of the public health system, formalizing in black and white the availability of 4 billions of additional resources announced for now only over the air by Minister Lorenzin. Resources that would primarily serve to eliminate the scourge of medical precariousness, which certainly does not favor the quality of care." "Just as - adds Milillo - the renewal of the agreement for family doctors, which expired more than six years ago, can be a good opportunity to improve patient care, above all guaranteeing continuity of care for chronically ill patients".
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SNAMI. Strike postponed for two months
The 48-hour general strike already called for 17 and 18 March has been suspended. We will verify whether the government's commitments correspond to the truth and I continue to have doubts and be perplexed about the concrete results that can be achieved.
I think that we will have to review the strike self-regulation code immediately, which conditions us to take positions that are too light and not very incisive.
Angel Head
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