The National and Territorial Filctem Cgil of Milan believes that scientific research is an essential tool for the progress and enhancement of the human being. We take sides without delay on the side of science with particular gratitude to those who have made it possible to have vaccination available so quickly in history.
The pandemic has created inconvenience, difficulties, problems at all levels, but if possible, it has hit the world of work with unprecedented virulence.
Among the most exposed categories, since last March, the beginning of the restrictions envisaged by the government to protect public health, there are drug sales representatives and traveling technical personnel who work in medical-health facilities.
Workers and workers, who due to the specificity of their profession have undergone a substantial change in their job, in order to change the contagion curve.
The Filctem of Milan, also to give a contribution to the national discussion, last June, after a discussion with the Rsu ISF, on the 9th, had articulated a certain precise public position, aimed at expressing its concern about the possibility that remote medical information, used by companies during the emergency, became the norm and was considered a new frontier for the role of the ISF. This political position was in fact supported by the National Secretariat in the official meeting venues held subsequently, sharing it with the other players in the field, an element that helped to bring about the discussion on the merits, finding with most of the companies in the sector that insist on throughout the national territory, elements of reflection such as not to allow the impoverishment of the role of these fundamental professionals from a health perspective.
Now, we think it is useful to bring the attention of all the actors and workers concerned, a further food for thought. If the COVID-19 has interrupted, or made the Isf-doctor relationships more difficult, often preventing face-to-face contact, in line with our idea of the value of the ISF role, which has already been expressed several times, we deem it useful to ask that in the audience of staff as a priority to be vaccinated, also that of scientific medical representatives and technical personnel is included. Some regions have taken steps in this direction but it is appropriate for a national direction that places the accent on the issue also in discussions with local bodies.
The Isf - doctor - patient chain remains the broadest scheme for protecting the health of citizens and towns and would minimize the health risks of operators, already too exposed to the danger of contagion up to now.
We propose this reasoning, not to endorse unacceptable "classifications" between workers and workers, but, on the contrary, to ensure that the dissemination of information to medical personnel and/or the maintenance of health equipment - even complex ones - takes place in safety and in The aim is to guarantee a better and more widespread treatment for everyone, at a time when the immediate return to normality of treatments and surgical interventions for non-Covid diseases is also absolutely necessary.
National chemical-pharmaceutical department and territorial secretariat of Milan Rome, 8 January 2021
