Brotzu, the conflict escalates: complaint by DG Foddis against 19 doctors, nurses and Oss on sick leave

This morning, the general director of Arnas Brotzu, Agnese Foddis, filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor's Office against 19 doctors, nurses and healthcare assistants who are on sick leave .

The complaint is all linked to the very high tension over the contested plan to renovate the operating rooms at Businco and the transfer of departments and patients to San Michele .

The DG underlines that «the simultaneous absence of these operators assigned to the same structure (Thoracic Surgery) determines the risk of the impossibility of proceeding with the coverage of the shifts and a well- founded risk of the impossibility of this company to allow the normal performance of surgical activities (and in fact two scheduled operating sessions were not performed) and the assistance to the hospitalized».
The inter-union of the medical and health management of Arnas Brotzu "believes that what was stated in the press release issued by the company on the issue of "interdivisional" guards is not only not in line with reality but above all damaging to the image and professionalism of colleagues who had to turn to the judicial authority to guarantee the safety of patient care. It is precisely the safety and quality of care that has been put at risk by a company that wanted to move forward without considering the proposed alternatives, such as the possibility of temporary operating rooms to be located near the Oncology Department".
The trade unions had long denounced that one of the many critical issues of the closure of the Businco operating rooms and the transfer of surgeries to Brotzu would have been "the organization of on-call shifts that were in line with contractual regulations and with ministerial provisions on the affinities between disciplines that exist to guarantee the quality of care. The ultra-specializations that persist in ARNAS prevent colleagues from being interchangeable in roles, as happens in peripheral hospitals, which in fact send the most complex cases to the specialist surgeries of Brotzu".