Order of doctors: “a structural solution is needed for Calabrian health care”

Calabrian healthcare needs “a structural response” and, to make up for the serious shortage of doctors, “before resorting to Cuban professionals it is necessary to try to find internal resources, I am thinking of retirees as well as postgraduates”. This is the reflection of the president of the Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo), Filippo Anelli, on the agreement signed by the governor of Calabria, Roberto Occhiuto, for the temporary hiring of about 500 doctors from Cuba. “Calabria is the Region in which there is the greatest discomfort for the medical profession. Both for the structures and for the professionals. Faced with a general failure of the interventions made up to now on the regional health system, the Governor had rightly to find a solution “, he admits Rings. In this context, the greatest concern, for President Fnomceo, “is linked to the verification of qualifications and the quality of training. The law allows this activity to the Regions in derogation, no longer to the Ministry of Health. This creates great perplexity. we have nothing towards our Cuban colleagues but we would like that, in any case, the quality, which we have strenuously wanted in Italy with extreme difficulty and which is the result of a complex training course, was also guaranteed for colleagues who come from abroad. the derogation of the law with respect to the recognition of qualifications makes the level of quality lower. For this reason we ask the Regions to refer, in any case, to the long experience of the ministry in this field for the verification mechanisms “. For Anelli “before getting to Cuban doctors, it is necessary to experiment with all the possibilities in Italy, including the use of retired doctors. This is because in Italy we have a certain, qualified training course. If it is necessary to resort to external resources, and the law today allows the Regions – he concludes – a real verification of qualifications is necessary. And this is what we ask “.