PALERMO (ITALPRESS) – Back-and-forth between the CGIL Sicilia and Aiop on health care in the island.”The agreement signed by the regional department of health with public and private facilities in the sector for the allocation of extrabudget funds not only does not provide a solution to the serious problems that constantly emerge revealing the inadequacy of the regional government’s health policy, but paradoxically risks handing over even more resources to the private sector,” say in a joint note the secretary general of CGIL Sicilia, Alfio Mannino, the head of health Renato Costa and the secretary of Fp Sicilia, Gaetano Agliozzo. “Once again those who must plan do not plan – they add – and those who must supervise do not supervise. It is not understood, for example, how private orthopedic facilities have already exhausted a budget that should be managed in twelfths.” For the CGIL, which in recent days has denounced “the parentopoli of the attempt to stabilize in the ranks of the region, it is also unacceptable -affirm Mannino, Costa and Agliozzo- that the president of the Region unloads on the medical managers responsibilities that before that managerial are political. Just as it is serious,” they say again, “that it is going to affect the organization of work without there having been any discussion with the union.”In relation to the critical issues on the orthopedics of Palermo, Aiop, during the meetings held in the Department, and in particular in the one on January 9, as per the minutes, has always reiterated, responsibly, the maximum willingness of the associated structures, as structures of private law of the SSR, to work in synergy to solve the problem in the exclusive interest of patients,” replies Barbara Cittadini, president of Aiop Sicily and national vice president of Aiop. “In this regard,” Cittadini continues, “our facilities, which are contracted with an annual budget/royalty, have always accepted, and will continue to do so, patients sent from the emergency rooms of all public hospitals who request them, consistent with planned activity and monthly budgets that are arranged in twelfths but can be exhausted even sooner based on the emergencies that need to be handled. The transfers of orthopedic patients will take place within the monthly budgets, therefore, public-private collaboration will take place without any extra budget, contrary to what the CGIL erroneously claimed in a note. We reiterate,” concludes the president of Aiop Sicilia, “the maximum collaboration in the moment of emergency to support the system and, above all, to give concrete answers to patients. To this end, the member facilities have committed to accept 38 orthopedic admissions per week, so as to be able, also, to guarantee the election activity of patients that, vice versa, would go to lengthen waiting lists. If the public facilities, in their autonomy, needed to do so, they could, also, carry out the expressions of interest provided for by d.a. 876/24, and agreements could be entered into to better plan activities and guarantee services without always resorting to emergency measures.”
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