Covid’s impact has been devastating on waiting lists and healthcare benefits
The activity of operating theaters “decreased by 80% and about 400 thousand postponed surgeries, outpatient and specialist services decreased by 20% and hospitalizations by 1.7 million, with significant reductions in oncological surgery and cardiac surgery “. So theUsb in a note, in which he denounces how “the 20-year cuts have been seen in the difficulty of the health worker who defended everyone’s health.
Never as in the case of the slogan chosen for it health strike proclaimed by Usb on January 28th ‘Out of service operators, health is collapsing’, has been able to grasp the sign of what promises to be the pandemic in the pandemic and which is destined to have consequences on public health much longer than the end of the state of emergency set for next March 31 “.
“The data of the studies published so far confirm a bleak picture: in two years of the pandemic, doctors, nurses and health workers have accumulated so much work-related stress (fear, anxiety, fatigue, insomnia) that all the ASLs have to run for cover by activating psychological assistance services “, adds the trade union.
“A malaise so vast that it touches peaks of 70% among the nursing staff, the most affected together with the trainees. From the initial fear of bringing the infection home with the consequent removal from their families, to the passage from heroes acclaimed from the balconies to unable to respond effectively to a virus that has caused over 150 thousand deaths. The difficulty in managing the death in isolation of patients and the drama of their families “, adds the union.
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