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“Good luck to all the girls and boys who this morning take the first step towards the Faculty of Medicine. You are the future of our most precious asset, the National Health Service ”. The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, writes it on Facebook on the occasion, today, of the access test to 66,000 students throughout Italy.
Today the entrance exams to the Faculty of Medicine begin. The places available for this year add up to a total of 13,072. A total of 66,638 candidates signed up for the test, about 2,000 fewer candidates than last year. “There is a very strict and organized protocol that contemplates differentiated access, the distance in the classroom where the tests are carried out, masks, sanitation, control of spaces that is carried out by the university itself with the support of the national civil protection and all the other local institutions, so there is a very detailed organization that will allow the tests to be carried out in complete safety, guaranteeing the students, ”said the Minister of University and Research, Gaetano Manfredi, on the eve of the tests.
You criticize the students. “It is unacceptable – says Camilla Guarino of Link Coordinamento Universitario – that this selection be made to be a doctor, when our National Health Service is still in serious emergency due to lack of personnel with the pandemic still ongoing. The myopic measures taken during the Running of the Bulls are emblematic: in various regions of Italy retired doctors, military doctors or even recently graduated doctors without adequate training have been called to service. We are against any access barrier ”.
“It is unacceptable that a student leaving high school cannot freely choose his course of study” – says Alessandro Personè – from the National Executive of the Student Union – the tests do not really evaluate the preparation, but they want to select and reduce the number of future University students “.
Protest against the limited number – First day of the medical tests, in Turin, and in front of the Lingotto entrances, the protest of the students of the Communist Youth Front is staged, who have unrolled a banner with the words’ The pandemic has shown it, the number closed it must be abrogated. ‘ There are 66,000 candidates for 13,000 teaching positions. “Does the government really believe that adding 5,000 places this year alone will solve the problem of a collapsing healthcare system?” Ivan Boine, provincial secretary of the FGC, asked in a statement. “For some time the lack of at least 50,000 nurses and tens of thousands of doctors has been denounced,” adds Boine. We see systematic cuts and measures implemented in support of private clinics that profit from health and ignored the virus. . Precisely the limited number of the medical school is one of those measures that have destroyed public health ”.
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