Sos of the Isf to patients: "Only ethical, widespread and correct information can guarantee medicines to better protect the health of all citizens. Support our appeal with your signature". Still victims of cuts, layoffs, transfers to other 'container' companies, whistleblowers are making themselves heard again. And this time they are addressing citizens, patient associations, the Tribunal for the rights of the patient, the Orders of doctors and pharmacists, the academic world, politicians, with a manifesto in which they ask for "support and solidarity for the defense of jobs".
The manifesto was illustrated in a conference in the Chamber. The intention is to disseminate it in all medical offices, where they will also start collecting signatures in support of the appeal. "It is the whistleblowers who are dropped by the companies, but the problem also concerns the citizens - argues Domenico Scilipoti, deputy of Italia dei valori (IDV), organizer of the conference - Non-quality medical-scientific information, by young hired with fixed-term contracts and for this reason more subject to blackmail than professionals with many years of experience on their shoulders, they expose patients to the risk of incorrect use of medicines.
There is a big difference between the 'salesman' and the scientific medical informant". Hence the appeal to citizens, but also to doctors. The unions aim in fact to involve the Orders of white coats and pharmacists in every Province. To lead "a common battle", they underline. "The drug is a product that is both useful and particular – begins the 'advice to patients' – the purchase of which is not governed by pleasure, but by utility. Inappropriate use can be harmful to health. The purpose of scientific information is to provide doctors with all the information necessary for the correct use of medicines for the protection of health". Citizens are explained that the Isf "is a graduate professional, whose activity is recognized by the ministry of Health and regulated by specific laws and provisions of the European Community. It contributes, as required by law, to updating your doctor. Therefore, it does not carry out any sales but an activity useful for safeguarding your health". And again, "it is useful to know that, although the pharmaceutical sector has positive balance sheets, numerous companies have made fictitious sales of company branches and have cut about 15,000 jobs among drug scientific information workers". "Unfortunately, nobody talks about these facts". The National Forum of drug sales representatives denounces that "insane political choices are endorsed, with the interested complicity of well-known trade unions , which allow companies that would not need them, to take advantage of social safety nets such as layoffs and mobility, subtracting them from im
