Anti Covid Vaccine, the appeal to RSA staff: “If there are resignations, the assistance to the elderly will go into crisis”

“We count on the fact that they will be the sense of responsibility and the solidarity that always characterizes their daily work to guide the decision of workers about vaccination against Covid 19 ″. Thus, the vertices of Uneba on the thorny issue of possible reluctance to vaccinate on the part of operators of health care homes for the elderly.

The managers association no profit with Catholic roots representing a thousand structures throughout Italy after the first signs of storm, underlines the cruciality of vaccination for structures where the most fragile part of the population that has been severely affected by the virus resides.

So much so that if there should be resignations among the staff of the nursing homes, “the care of the elderly will enter into great difficulties,” according to the appeal signed (among others) by the organization’s national president Franco Massi so “even the vaccination campaign against Covid is a way of caring for the most vulnerable.”

“The workers of the RSA and the structures for the elderly, from March until today, have achieved enormous efforts protect the elderly, and themselves, but also their families and the communities and territories in which they live, from the spread of the virus “, continues Uneba, recalling that” an effective vaccine is a excellent ally of your own commitment. Therefore, although we understand that this unprecedented situation may generate certain uncertainty, and in respect for freedom of each one, in Uneba we hope that the workers will join the vaccination campaign ”.

However, to date, the organization states that it has not received any sign of “reluctance to undergo vaccination” from employees. In any case, “the consent that they will express (or will not express) when they are questioned by the health authorities of the territories ”.