Covid, 45 thousand health workers not yet vaccinated: suspensions are triggered

The first suspensions are triggered for health workers who have not yet vaccinated against the coronavirus. According to the latest data published by the Covid-19 emergency commissioner, there are 45,753 thousand health workers “waiting for the first dose or single dose” of the vaccine, 2.3% of the total of 1.9 million health workers . After two months from the decree, which introduced the anti-Covid vaccination obligation for health professionals, the first suspensions by the ASL arrived. In this period of time, the professional associations, hospitals and RSAs have provided and are still providing the names of all the doctors and nurses of the various health structures. In Emilia Romagna there are over 14 thousand health workers who have not yet been vaccinated, almost 8% of the total; Sicily follows with 9,214 (6.5%) and then Puglia with 9 thousand (6.5%). The latter, however, is one of the most active regions in ‘flushing out’ health professionals not yet immunized. At the end of May in Brindisi, 5 employees of the health company were suspended from work without pay because they refused the anti-Covid vaccine. Then there are the cases of those who, already sanctioned, tried to appeal. A few days ago the labor judge gave reason to the RSA ‘Villa Belvedere’ in Crocetta del Montello (Treviso), after five no-vax operators suspended from work had appealed against the RSA provision.