2023-11-20 09:49:00
Doctors, many Italians already don’t know who to ask for prescriptions. Here’s what will happen in just three years
The public health is in very serious difficulty, in addition to the drama of the lack of staff in hospitals and emergency rooms, there is also an emergency widespread with regards to general practitioners. In 15 years, 14 thousand white coats deployed in territorial assistance have been lost and there is a rather alarming forecast – we read in La Stampa. It is estimated that in 2026 five million Italians they will be without a primary care doctor, this is the risk you run based on the current situation. But many citizens are already in difficulty. Alberto They have seen, Veronese provincial secretary of Fimmg, explains what is happening. “They arrive in our offices towards the evening, they are the orphaned patients of the family doctor and they don’t know who to get prescription drugs and certificates from. I hear of colleagues who they spend their nights making recipes and the situation until 2025 with the upcoming retirements will worsen. So much so that the ASL is defining an agreement so that the medical guards are also open during the day where they exist at least 500 citizens left without a reference doctor”, says Vaona.
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And the numbers collected by Istat and Agenas, the public agency for regional health services, agree with him. In the last 15 years – continues La Stampa – between general practitioners, paediatricians and medical guards, 13,788 white coats deployed have been lost along the way in the very sick of our NHS, the territory. In practice, one doctor in five passed away. The new recruits could reverse this trend, given that thanks also to the Pnrr money the government has made new graduates available 900 scholarships to specialize in general medicine, thus bringing the total number of places to 2,779 per year between now and 2025. Too bad though fewer candidates showed up at the appeal than the available scholarships. Without considering that part of those enrolled drop out of courses prematurely. Yet, as Silvestro Scotti, Fimmg national secretary, explains, “today it is possible to undertake specialization in general medicine more convenient than a hospital specialty“.
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