Said no to transporting Covid-19 patients: USB nurse-unionist suspended for six months. “We were without Ffp2 and we were not trained”

“I disobey your order”. For this clear refusal to follow a held disposition illegitimate in full Covid emergency, Francesco Scorzelli, nursing coordinator of theMerate hospital and union delegate ofUSB, received the most severe punishment after the dismissal: six months of Suspension from work no salary. For himLecco’s Assistant, which is the territorial socio-sanitary company of Lombardy region to which the hospital belongs, was ainsubordination which hampered the performance of a public service. But for Scorzelli it was the only way to safeguard the greeting Gods workers coordinated by him and hospitalized patients: “I was punished for trying to enforce the rules anti Covid ”.

It is the middle of March, coronavirus infections continue to increase and Lombardy hospitals are in extreme difficulty. Scorzelli is in charge of about twenty operators that they deal with Centralized transport service, that is, the movement of material and patients between the different departments. You are asked to change the shifts in order to dedicate some operators to the transport of Covid patients. Scorzelli refuses, because he thinks the staff is doing well Format and equipped with devices of adequate individual protection. The order is confirmed by email. “Absolutely not,” he replies, questioning the effectiveness of a training performed only in bandage procedure and undress and points out that the surgical masks made available to ASST are not enough, but the FFP2 of the FFP3, more filtered. the March 20 Scorzelli yes sick himself from Covid and during his absence shifts are changed. When early May come back, get your group’s service to be limited for a few days, in order to complete thetraining activity and wait for all the protection devices that are considered necessary.

Little by little the situation in the hospital returns to normal, but at the beginning of June Scorzelli receives a disciplinary dispute for refusing to fulfill the March order and for the tones used in some emails. In the middle July thus ends up in front of the disciplinary procedure office, which also counts among its three components Anna Cazzaniga, director of the health professions Asst who denounced her insubordination in March and now holds the position of judge. In September, the penalty: six months without pay. The Usb speaks of “a”cowardly action me vengeful for intimidating purposes ”, which arrived just in the days when the rank-and-file union presented a exposed at the Prosecutor’s Office on the alleged anomalies that occurred in the Asst hospital facilities in Lecco during the emergency period, “where – underlines the union – they died from Covid-19 approximately 347 patients and at least 400 employees tested positive. “

Asst CEO is Paolo Favini, who before arriving in Lecco in 2018 worked for two years in the Region under the Department of Welfare Giulio Gallera, as head of the General Directorate of Income of Autonomy and Social Inclusion. Ilfattoquotidiano.it contacted Asst, who nevertheless replied that he did not want to comment on this disciplinary action and on those previously taken against Scorzelli. The USB delegate, in fact, has received in the past other sanctions, including a three-month suspension, then reduced to a single month on which the judge’s assessment still depends. “All these are measures related to episodes in which I defended colleagues or patients – says Scorzelli – like when I took it away from a doctor who, instead of doing a bone scan to a patient, he went to lunch ”.

Regarding the order that he refused to carry out in March, he has no regrets: “I couldn’t throw the workers I coordinate. If someone gets sick, or worse, dies, there is criminal responsibility it would have fallen on me, as his supervisor ”. FFP2 skins were missing everywhere – in a time of emergency like that, wasn’t it right to force certain rules? “We must arrive prepared for emergencies – he responds – the fact that we were not is the responsibility of ASST and the Region. When there was theebola, remember that in emergency room we were full of FFP2 masks. Why do all the hospitals lack them this time? ”.

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