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An elderly person in a retirement home, with him an operator with anti-Covid equipment
The situation is “on the verge of collapse”. The Institute elderly assistance suffers the second wave of Covid-19 in its entirety. Meanwhile, the union front returns to the field, with the state of agitation proclaimed by CGIL, CISL and CSA. Request for “cooling” of the situation before the Prefect, with the prospect, in case of failure of the negotiation, of a strike. Meanwhile, the numbers are ruthless. The “Al Parco” service center has 66 infected guests (out of 228 beds), as well as 20 operators and a nurse. Like many, they were hit in “Loro”, with most of the personnel out of action. The “Leo Cirla” has 26 (out of 83); seven of 92 in the «Santa Caterina». The “Don Carlo Steeb”, the family home in via Tormina and the “hospice” are kept, in which only one coordinator is positive for Covid. “We are in full emergency, a situation now on the edge. I don’t think this is the time for a union challenge, ”says IAA Director Adelaide Biondaro. L ‘emergency IAA is also relaunched in a public appeal on the pages of L’Arena, meanwhile the recent coordination table in front of the Prefect, which was also attended by the unions and Elisabetta Elio (Pia Opera Ciccarelli) on behalf of public and private services , had brought up a dramatic situation. More than 700 elderly people infected in the structures of the city and province, a pressure that, without urgent interventions, “amounts to an imminent collapse.” “Compared to the first, well controlled, the new wave is the mirror of what is happening in the country, despite the personal protective equipment, which is not an insurmountable screen,” says Vice President Luca Mascanzoni.
The situation is complicated and serious. There regularity of service for Ia it is set at 254 health workers and 54 nurses. At the beginning of the year, 297 and 78 were hired respectively. Photograph already different from September 30 (“After the summer exodus to public health,” says Biondaro): 293 and 67. To date the forces in the field are 299 and 66. “The regional authorities have been informed, locals, unions and family committees. On December 4, I declared that I could no longer meet the nursing standard, ”explains the director. We are moving personnel between the offices, with the risk of creating other crises, meanwhile seeking the collaboration of the students and transforming, after the due notices to the unions, the hours ‘part time’ into full time, with a positive response ”.
Biondaro puts aside all diplomacy: “I’m sorry but the threat of the strike is now a“ looting ”, they want to sweep away, with the emergency screen, the serious administrative deficiencies of the past that the unions themselves have helped to create. Threatening a strike in this situation is shameful“. The meeting, between the health emergency, the employment nodes and the” standards “of service to be respected, will soon end again in front of the desk of the Prefect, Donato Cafagna.” We will present ourselves confident of having done what we expected and even more. “Reaffirms Alessandro Cappiotti, president of the Institute for the Care of the Elderly. We will be willing to accept proposals that are helpful in the serious critical situation that involves not only us but the entire sector of care homes.” Then he relaunches : “If some unions or their representatives think of taking advantage of the emergency to nullify situations of illegitimacy that may have arisen with their silent support, they may not have understood the compactness and transparency of this Board of Directors.”
Hard times and noise of crossed blades. Personnel partly forced “on the bench” and without reservations to be deployed. Riccardo Saurini, adviser to the IAA at the Cinquestelle altitude, encourages mediation: “The unions, with all the battles behind them, should understand better than others when it is time to attack or give support. At least in theory, today and here, we would all have a common enemy to defeat. The game, once again. he moves to the prefect’s office. The draw would already be a “useful result”. • © RESERVED REPRODUCTION
