About 4,200 doctors are missing in the Italian emergency rooms,
according to data from last November from Simeu (Italian Society of Emergency Medicine).
And there are already 600 doctors who resigned in 2022, practically 100 per month
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Guaranteeing assistance is increasingly difficult, also because requests for help have increased (on average by 20% compared to the same period last year).
Insiders speak of the "worst summer since the Emergency Urgency".
The number of patients who remain in the emergency room waiting for hospitalization for a long time is also increasing "with the same proportions", the so-called boarding.
The concrete fact is this - explains Simeu in a note -, an increasing number of people are turning to DEAs and PSs, structures that they cannot delegate to others and that do not have closing times ". However, requests" exceed by far the possibility of a response ". Considering all the causes, Simeu estimates that" the operators suffer an increase in the intensity of the personal workload of no less than 50% compared to 2021, which in this same period did not register a 'wave of Covid nor a similar and persistent heat wave ". For Antonio Voza, secretary Simeu," the first problem is the unmet needs of patients "but" even the condition of operators has long since exceeded the limit of sustainability.
Indiscriminately from north to south ".
The government crisis, according to the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine, has also determined "a hard stop to those few achievements that emergency medicine hardly seemed close to conquering".
This is because, says Fabio De Iaco, national president of Simeu, "it limits the range of action of the government to current affairs. The times to reach the measures necessary for the survival of the service are expanding in an unsustainable way: in this way we will not resist".
However, Simeu believes that "for our sector the support activity cannot be suspended, even in view of political elections".
He therefore asks that "