Pact between Union and Health Professions to Train and Employ Young Professionals in Naples

A "pact" is born between the union and the orders of health professions in Naples with the goal of training young people in the sector and hiring them immediately afterwards, providing them with employment, and giving the city, grappling with severe staff shortages that do not allow optimal functioning of hospitals, useful intellectual resources to match supply and demand for health services worthy of the Neapolitan tradition. The Cisl Public Function of the metropolitan area, with leader Luigi D’Emilio, and the presidents of the 4 most numerous orders, Teresa Rea for nursing professions, Francesco Paolo Esposito for physiotherapists, Franco Ascolese for the sanitary technicians of Naples, Avellino, Benevento, and Caserta, and, representing the midwives, Alessandra Iuliano, participated in the conference promoted by the federation, with the regional number one Lorenzo Medici, who moderated the debate, concluded by the national secretary FP Roberto Chierchia, agreed on a need considered by all as a priority: to prevent the migration of young people trained here towards the North. The cry of alarm comes from the fact that the tendency of the "intellectual resources" specialized in Naples to go north and sometimes abroad for greater professional opportunities, risks becoming even more pronounced if the bill on differentiated autonomy passes, with the consequent possibility of more appealing regional contracts, which would further widen the existing gap. D'Emilio cites some numbers that indicate the current differences. "Today," he says, "between Naples and its province we have about 20,000 nurses, with an average of 3.3%, while in the North it is above 5%, 2500 physiotherapists, or less than 1 for every 1000 citizens, and 2600 radiology technicians, with the same percentage. In compensation, every year the Federico II, Vanvitelli, and Parthenope universities offer the job market over 1000 professionals. Our goal is to engage them here, reopening closed hospitals, using the 2,000 non-operational beds, increasing the emergency rooms starting from the two polyclinics as the law provides, offering them job certainty and the right economic treatment, and at the same time reducing the abnormal waiting lists that delay treatments in a terrifying way, often forcing citizens to go elsewhere, with additional costs for Campania. We are ready to discuss with all interested parties to achieve this goal." The orders have shown their willingness to follow this path. The national and Campanian Cisl Fp, with Chierchia and Medici, expressed the support of the two levels of the category to the proposal of the Naples structure, reiterating the need to immediately open a "dialogue with the institutions to identify the conditions for a turnaround in the sector, capable of valuing local professional energies and relaunching the important existing health structures, always a pride and consolidated tradition of the territory."