Mayor Clemente Mastella Expresses Solidarity with Nursing Professionals Amid Healthcare Reorganization

Mayor Clemente Mastella received this morning at Palazzo Mosti a delegation from the Nursing Professions Order led by President Massimo Procaccini. Mayor Mastella expressed to the president of the Order the utmost solidarity and closeness regarding some public statements that have been made about the reorganization, in the province of Benevento, of the 118 system. 'As president of the Representation Committee of the mayors of the Asl, I felt it was appropriate to renew the feeling of utmost esteem and gratitude to the nurses. The shortage of doctors is a national issue that the Asl and health institutions are forced to deal with, and nurses, I am convinced, far from being moved by surrogate intents, are precious and irreplaceable resources to face this problem in a valid and effective way.' 'They are graduated professionals, with multisectoral skills and increasingly higher and more accurate training that takes place in an academic setting. For this reason, their contribution in the first, emergency approach with the patient is as competent as it is valid: to feed fears and alarmism in this field is an act of irresponsibility and inappropriate towards the citizens and towards the health professionals who work, daily and synergistically, to the health needs of the citizens.' President Procaccini thanked Mayor Mastella for this closeness and further testimony of esteem to the nursing profession.