The anti-Covid vaccine “of health professionals is an essential requirement to carry out the professional activity. It is necessary for new registrations in the register, and must persist over time, in every phase, under penalty of suspension from the exercise of the profession. Therefore, the suspension ex lege from exercising professional activity due to lack of vaccination can only be considered as suspension tout court, and not limited to activities in contact with people“. A clarification that comes from the Ministry of Health, which sent – three months after the previous communication – an explanatory circular to all the Federations of the Orders of the health professions. Note that today the Federation of the Orders of Surgeons and Dentists (Fnomceo ) disseminated to the 106 territorial orders.
Therefore, for the unvaccinated suspended, “any recourse to the Central Commission for health professions (Cceps) will not, in any case, have the effect of preventing the application of this suspension, which is not a disciplinary sanction. The clarification of the Ministry of Health, which adheres to the address already provided by Fnomceo to the Orders, brings certainty about the actions within the competence of the Orders themselves. And it firmly establishes that vaccination is a fundamental requirement to be able to practice the health professions, as much as the degree and the qualification “, comments the president of Fnomceo, Filippo Anelli
“We appreciated – continues Anelli – the commitment of the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, and the attention to the issues raised by the Federations of the Orders of the health professions. This circular is, in fact, the result of a listening process promoted by the Minister, which has worked to overcome the problems that have emerged and to give uniformity to the application of the law on the national territory “.