In Veneto family doctors do not give up, and if the Region does not make concrete progress in the negotiations in the next few hours, they will move on to closing the clinics for two days. In fact, the protest limited to the failure to transfer the computer data of the recipes has been going on for over a month, but phase two will be that of the lockout, with clinics closed in the meantime on 8 and 9 November, 
while from 13 December it will eventually move to three days a week out of five, then calculating that family doctors already do not receive patients on Saturday and Sunday.
"The Region has taken some steps forward, it has opened up to dialogue with our trade unions, and it is a fact that we appreciate", says Domenico Crisarà, regional general secretary of Fimmg, "but to suspend the protest we need concrete steps, of actual changes. Which? Everyone we've been discussing for weeks. From the IT path to the health file, from the release of integrated group medicines to the green light for all the beds provided in intermediate structures such as community hospitals and hospices.
In our opinion, the will is enough, it is not difficult to implement everything when foreseen over two years ago by the new regional social and health plan". Meanwhile, family doctors collect the support of their own patients, especially those most in need of assistance. "They continue to support and thank us because they have understood that we are protesting for them too," continues Crisarà. "Especially the chronically ill who need home care, and who are the ones who suffer the most from the situation and the lack of adequate local services right now".
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