“For a few hours we have been in the red zone: in the narrative we have gone from being the region that was doing better than many others to realizing that we are in the middle of a pandemic, with delays that are no longer justifiable”.
The thrust of the CGIL is very hard which, with the general secretary of the province of L’Aquila Francesco Marrelli and the secretary of the public service Anthony Pasqualone, returns to denounce “delays in the recruitment of personnel, in the allocation of Covid beds, in the tracking of infections and in processing the swabs performed “; in the current pandemic tragedy – underlines the union – “there has been no assumption of responsibility on the part of those who conducted this phase, as if the responsibilities fell on the infected people and on the people who work, who provide assistance, who care, who they instruct “.
From here, the truth operation of the CGIL of the province of L’Aquila that ‘dismantles’ the reconstructions of the last few days on the activities that would have been put in place by the ASL 1, in particular on the front of personnel recruitment.
“We listened to the administrators ‘exalting’ the activities of the General Manager of the ASL no more than a few months ago for having hired, having relaunched the welfare and health care activities, giving centrality to public assistance. Today we discover that the rhetoric of doing was false, had no basis. In the 2019-2021 personnel needs plan, the ASL itself indicated, for the year 2019, 435 recruitments, of which 390 related to replacements or stabilizations: this meant nothing more than keeping the number unchanged of employees considering, among other things, the substantial retirement of male and female workers “.
The same ASL specifies in the plan that part of these recruitments resulted from dragging of the year 2018: however, “the news released in January told of the hiring of 316 units, as declared by the General Director himself. Too bad he would have had to hire them 435 as authorized by the Abruzzo Region. The same ASL, in the needs plan, provided for recruitment for 50 OSS already in 2019 out of the 83 planned overall; of these, about 30 were hired only in the current year while nothing was done in 2019 ” .
Not only.
From a brief reading of the 2019 final balance sheet, referred to in the Resolution of the General Manager no. 1387 of 5 August 2020, and from the notes to the financial statements, it is noted that, in full continuity with the previous management, the cost of personnel shows a decrease compared to 2018 equal to € 885,786.00. “Said overall reduction in personnel costs is actually more conspicuous – however, the CGIL clarifies – as the above-mentioned items of the financial statements include the increase in the cost of personnel of the Medical Management, deriving exclusively from the increase due to the renewal of the CCNL “.
By admission of the ASL itself, “The overall decrease was due to the fact that the company did not activate insolvency procedures, during the year 2019, in order to hire new staff to replace retired staff, which for example only for staff belonging to the sector indefinitely resulted in…. omissis ….. a number of terminations for a total of 159 units and at the same time there were hires for a number of units equal to 84 ….. omitted …. “.
It is evident that the reduction in personnel costs corresponds to fewer and fewer workers in service in each single Department and / or Service of the ASL 1, “The occasional reassurances issued publicly by the various politicians and managers of the territory of the Province of L’Aquila are of no use” the thrust of the union.
Moreover, “the ASL was well aware of the serious shortages of personnel already in place, so much so that, in the same three-year needs plan, he specified that the planned hiring – although aimed at increasing the staff in the main critical areas highlighted during the survey of needs – certainly could not be said to be sufficient to fully integrate the minimum necessary requirements for the concrete operational and welfare needs of some UU.OO.
In conclusion, “it is quite evident that the current persistent workforce within the ASL is not absolutely sufficient, being undersized compared to the real needs already in a normal condition. In an emergency situation such as the one in progress, it is essential for the guarantee of the Constitutional right to health to immediately saturate the staffing of the ASL 1, at the same time preparing a programmatic plan of hiring procedures identifying paths that give guarantees to all workers and precarious workers, including those of Cooperatives and Administration Companies, and pending such activities it is necessary to extend the duration of the existing contracts at least until the conclusion of the insolvency procedures and no longer month by month, as has been happening for too long “.
The CGIL adds: “It is necessary to guarantee to precarious workers a condition of contractual continuity necessary for their life and for the welfare needs that the emergency requires”.
With reference to the other criticality that is affecting our Province and that concerns the difficulties in the tamponade of citizenship and in the ability to process the tampons once performed, “it is evident the negligence in not having involved up to now a very important public structure such as the University of L’Aquila, despite an agreement already in place for the diagnosis of other pathologies with the same ASL 1. In fact, the University has the availability of personnel and equipment to be able to process an important number of swabs. Other territories, already in the first pandemic phase, have chosen to involve public structures in order to ensure greater ability to verify and control the progress of the infections “.
The University itself, according to what was declared by the Rector, would also be in a position to be able to perform serological tests, useful for tracing the infection. “With regard to this aspect, consistently with the stalemate, no further solutions have not been hypothesized within each single hospital unit of the ASL 1 to address the need to proceed with an ever increasing number, in perspective, of In the absence of choices in this direction, citizens, as well as many production activities, have been forced to turn to private laboratories for the analysis of molecular swabs, with the consequent increase in costs for taxpayers “.
The responsibilities of the framework described here which – the CGIL reiterates – “entail serious consequences for the citizens, workers and workers of our Province, are evident both from a political point of view and from a management point of view. and proclamations and declarations of intent are useless if they do not follow formal acts and actions aimed at solving problems. if we want access to health services to be recognized as a fundamental right of every human being, it is necessary for politics to conceive health as a common good. It is an idea of health as an integrated social project between all the actors involved, starting immediately with an immediate collaboration between the health company, local authorities and universities “.
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