Three hundred Italian caregivers have taken legal action to obtain the lifting of the obligation for medical and health personnel to be vaccinated against Covid-19, the Italian press reported on Saturday.
The appeal was lodged with the Administrative Court of Brescia, on behalf of caregivers working in the Lombardy region, in Brescia, Cremona, Bergamo and Mantua.
A hearing is scheduled for July 14.
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“
This is not a no-vax battle but a democratic battle. We force people to take a risk on pain of no longer being able to exercise their profession,
”explained the constitutional lawyer Daniele Granara, at the origin of the procedure, quoted by the daily
Il giornale di Brescia
. He also defends dozens of caregivers suspended for refusing to be vaccinated.
A law that came into force in April provides that "
people working in socio-health structures, public and private, in pharmacies, drugstores and private practices are obliged to submit to vaccination
".
In the event of a breach, the offender, if he works in contact with the public, is assigned to another service or suspended without pay if the employer has no new tasks to offer him.
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So far 52.7 million doses have been administered in Italy.
Almost 19.5 million Italians are vaccinated, or 36% of the population over 12 years old.
