Covid, 1,656 doctors without vaccine suspended

There are “1,656 doctors suspended” because they do not have a Covid vaccine and “those who, after the suspension, have vaccinated themselves up to 522”. This was communicated by the Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo), which receives the flow of data from the provincial Orders. “The number of doctors who got vaccinated after being suspended has increased in absolute terms: up to now, 522 out of 2,178 suspended, almost one in four”. There are 78, two more than last week, out of 106, the Orders that have notified the Federation at least one suspension. In Italy, 468 thousand professionals are enrolled in the registers of doctors and dentists. “The notification of the suspension communicated by the ASL to the health service and the Order, for the suspension from the Register, proved to be an effective spur to induce vaccination to colleagues who, for one reason or another, had not yet fulfilled the requirement ‘obligation – explains the president of Fnomceo, Filippo Anelli -. For this reason it is important that the flow is not interrupted, and that all the local health authorities communicate the names of the doctors not yet vaccinated to the Orders as soon as possible. And this, both to avoid that, as is still happening in at least 28 provinces, health professionals continue to operate in contact with patients; and to be able to convince colleagues who, for various reasons, have postponed the vaccination. Let us remember once again that, for a doctor, getting vaccinated is not only a right, to protect themselves from the increased risk of contracting Covid, but also an ethical and deontological duty. With a double value: that of cutting down the possibility of becoming a vehicle of contagion for its patients, especially for the most fragile, and that of setting a good example “. 3,800 SUSPENDED NURSES – On the other hand,” about 3,800 nurses are suspended “because they are still not up to date with the anti-Covid vaccination. Fnopi, the National Federation of Nursing Professions, underlines this to Adnkronos Salute, underlining that “only 75% of health companies have communicated the data” and that “the 3,800 suspended nurses are 0.85% of the members “. According to Luigi Pais, member of the Central Committee of Fnopi:” Not all healthcare companies are working at the same speed – explains Pais to Adnkronos Salute -, there are those who have made radical choices and are going at rapid speed and others that instead put the staffing problems that arise with the suspension of nurses first. à but, from the first data, colleagues are making the recall. Of course – Pais warns – there are also situations within health companies that leave themselves perplexed, or operators who continue to work even though suspended because they have not been vaccinated due to the delays of the ASL in verifying the documents. This generates impatience in those who are committed to and believed in immunizations “. On the possibility that the obligation for some categories also arrives for the third dose, Pais concludes that” it would perhaps be appropriate not to generate conflict situations within the wards “.