Regional Councilor Fabiano Amati back to the story San Raffaele Rehabilitation Center in Ceglie Messapica (Br).
“I can hardly believe it, but the latest report from the Prevention Department of the ASL of Brindisi has highlighted an unexpected enormity: Doctors without the required qualifications were treating very seriously ill patients of the Rehabilitation Center of Ceglie Messapica. We will tell the national government, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Judges of the TAR, in the hope that this terrible fiction will end and that the service will immediately pass into the jurisdiction of public health, improving the service and trying to safeguard all jobs”.
Fabiano Amati
“This is the first time in 24 years that a detailed review of the Centre’s activities has been carried outas should instead happen systematically for all public and contracted structures. We cannot reach this level of opacity, poor service and perhaps crimes, to assert the good performance of public administration. The events that have come to light from the ongoing inspection activities are disturbing.”
“Indeed. Doctors who claim to be specialists in dentistry and who only by length of service, but this is something that needs to be verified, could carry out the relevant functions. Doctors who are not suitable for rehabilitation functions because they have specializations in psychotherapy, sports medicine, cardiology with a freelance contract, anesthesia and resuscitation with on-call consultancy contact, physical medicine and rehabilitation assigned to active afternoon or night duty, dentistry, gynecology and obstetrics, as well as lacking specialization”.
“In short, a good portion of the staff is not qualified to carry out their functions. But for how many years have we entrusted our patients to professionals without the necessary qualifications? Of course, these are professionals who deserve respect for everything they have done over the years and who were sidetracked by a hiring activity of the San Raffaele Foundation that did not comply with the law. And in fact, we will need to understand how and in what way we can safeguard their contribution in the new season of public service”.
“However, there remains a bitter taste in the mouth for this way of managing the service and our patients.; a bitter taste in my mouth that convinces me even more of the goodness of the initiative undertaken. And on the documented facts there is no chatter that holds up”.
