“They vaccinate non-at-risk people
And we doctors are still waiting … “
Dentists, gynecologists, surgeons: many doctors are still waiting to be subjected to the first dose: “The administrative employees passed in front of it”
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An important share of vaccinated against Covid does not belong to the health care category: 21%, reports the Lombardy Region. So in the Como area about 2,250 of the 10,700 doses administered so far have not gone to doctors and nurses.
Pirellone and Ats Insubria, however, do not provide precise figures and specific categories, while confirming that these people already defended against the pandemic are not health care workers and not even guests of the RSA. This poor transparency bothers many unvaccinated white coats. According to regional plans, freelancers will be covered in March.
“I am a gynecologist from the Comense diagnostic center – explains for example Laura Redaelli -. I have received the application form but not the appointment and not even updates. It’s not a race, but I know lift maintainers who have been vaccinated while working in the hospital, like many cross volunteers, even though they never ride on ambulances ».
The lack of doses does not help, the campaign cannot take off until thousands of vaccines a day arrive in the area. “We psychologists as health professionals are on the list, we will be vaccinated soon – he says Rossella Dartizio -. We carry out a profession in contact with patients. For the developmental age, keeping the distance is difficult, those who make assessments with very elderly patients or work in protected communities are close to subjects at risk. Knowing of already vaccinated secretaries and administrators raises some legitimate doubts ».
Transparency, the pharmacologist recalled from these pages Silvio Garattini, helps the vaccination campaign to continue without controversy and increases its consensus. The medical orders were the first to sound the alarm, the president Gianluigi Spata he said that cunning is a risk we cannot afford to take.
We asked Ats Insubria and Asst Lariana for now without success the list of vaccinated, not to publish it, but to verify the absence of cunning. However, Asst explained that 86% of the doses used on the staff of the former hospital company went to health professionals and 14% to non-health workers.
«Let’s say that similar news is a bit angry – he comments Franco Brenna, dentist by profession and councilor in the municipality – many colleagues have not even been notified yet. Doctors, dentists, hygienists, psychologists and psychiatrists, dermatologists, radiologists ».
“If the Ats administrators at the desk or in smartworking have vaccinated, there is something to be angry about – he says Ezio Grandi, a well-known family doctor from Como – the priority system in the case could have been better managed. There are healthcare professionals who are really in touch with patients. However it is correct to ask for an account of who has already been vaccinated. Not giving timely information means not being transparent, generating doubts, lowering the consent on vaccinations. I sure I joined, on January 12 I filled out a form, I still receive my clients. Nobody let me know anything. As to me also to many other colleagues in my same conditions ».
«For us mere mortals, choices and decisions are incomprehensible – he reasons Riccardo Forte, plastic surgeon – if about 20% of the vaccinated are not really a healthcare professional, it is right to ask for further information and clarifications. It is a right. I see the patients closely and we are still at risk of contagion ».
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