Healthcare, Siaarti: 'anesthetists are a rare commodity but post-graduate system reform is needed'

“Anaesthetists, resuscitators, emergency doctors and surgeons are now a rare commodity. However, training these specialists even in hospitals outside the training network to fill staff shortages due to years of incorrect planning leaves us very perplexed. Training in the field and in hospitals it is not under discussion. Indeed, it is fundamental, but a full reform of the post-graduate medical training system is needed which guarantees the quality of the same, skills and activities gained in the field”. Thus to Adnkronos Salute the president of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (Siaarti) Antonino Giarratano, comments on the approval by the Senate of the 'Pnrr Decree' which is so worrying for specialist doctors looking for real training postgraduate.

For Giarratano “it is necessary to avoid that the trainee is considered a resource destined to cover gaps in the staffing of the Regional Health Service in peripheral structures without many specialties, where – he underlines – to remain in the discipline of Anesthesia and resuscitation, he would do a different activity and in any case without those specialties necessary for its training, not developing essential skills for those who will then have to be assisted and cared for by these new specialists”.

Furthermore, “with this provision – highlights the president of Siaarti – the role of certifying the acquisition of skills has been taken away from teachers. Who will do this, especially if in some networks the specialists do not acquire them? We insist, we find overall solutions that guarantee all the needs of the health system and training. Or the flight from registrations in some specialties will become a hemorrhage”.