In the capital, red recipe books are once again in short supply and family doctors turn to the carabinieri. The epicenter of the new crisis is made up of the ASL Roma C and F, where supplies have by now been reduced to a couple of blocks at a time and MMGs are forced to shuttle between the studio and the district every two or three days. The discomfort was unsustainable, so much so that a complaint to the carabinieri and prosecutors started from a doctor of the sixth Roman ASL: in addition to exposing the difficulties caused by the shortage, the generalist mentions the invitation of health managers to ration prescriptions proceeding! or to prescription «only in cases of necessity that cannot be postponed».
This was enough to get the Region to take the field, which in a letter sent to the Poligrafico called for a substantial increase in supplies.
No discomfort but lower than usual deliveries also in Tuscany, where in any case there are no worries among doctors: «Instead of the four packs of 40 prescription books each that they usually delivered to us» explains the regional secretary of Fimmg, Vittorio Boscherini «now they give us two. They begin to prepare for the dematerialisation of the recipe». In Campania, on the other hand, the situation seems to be improving slightly thanks to an increase in production by the Poligrafico, but the doctors remain on the alert. «In Naples they don't deliver more than four recipe books a week» explains Luigi Sparano, secretary of the provincial Fimmg «it cannot be said that it is ideal but for now they have not registered! service interruptions".
July 10, 2012 – DoctorNews
