A circular that attributes to family doctors 30 thousand doses of vaccine administered in an anomalous way, recorded under the item ‘other’, in the priority categories box. And which foreshadows possible controls by the Ministry of Health. A document that, however, never reached the doctors, who this morning saw some excerpts published in the press. A ‘yellow’ that irritates and offends white coats. “I call it sabotage. What else does it mean to release news of this kind, implying that family doctors give vaccines to friends of friends?”, Pierluigi Bartoletti, secretary of the Italian Federation of Medical Doctors, told time.news Salute general medicine (Fimmg) of Rome, who does not hide his irritation.
Bartoletti then explains that the wording ‘other’ in the registration on the regional vaccine registry, on which the circular identifies anomalies, “is technical, and the Region should know it. We only had the system coding to indicate different items on Monday. . But until the day before yesterday we could only indicate ‘other’ or ‘dialysis’. The ‘other’ field was, in practice, updated two days ago. However, if this entry, in the data stream, seemed strange to the officials why not ask directly for explanations, and perhaps improve reporting, instead of instilling the doubt that our behavior is fraudulent? “asks Bartoletti.
“This is pure defamation of family doctors – he comments – a category that is spending itself to the limit of its strength in this pandemic. And to which vaccines are not provided. Shooting in the newspapers that there are 30 thousand vaccinations given to ‘friends’ is unacceptable”.
It is, Bartoletti remarks, an “offensive affair” against those who, for months, have been trying desperately to do their duty. Since December we have signed an agreement, 1,700 doctors available to make Pfizer vaccines. To date, in my office, in a month and a half, I made 6 vials of Pfizer and one of Astrazeneca. Now they tell me that, with these ‘4 vaccines’, I would have favored friends of friends, since my vaccinates were all categorized as ‘other’, because the computer system did not allow me to make different choices. But, if the bureaucrats had looked closely, they would have seen that they were all 80. It was not so difficult to cross the data with age, an operation that would have avoided offensive words from the technocrats . At this point what should we do as family doctors? Return the vials to the Region? “.