More than thirty Sardinian doctors ask to leave Italy every month

Another 95 Sardinian doctors are leaving the island to move to other European or Gulf countries .

And so, while entire hospital departments reduce services, thousands of citizens are without basic assistance and clinics close due to staff shortages , the hemorrhage of doctors in Sardinia continues.

In the first three months of 2024 , over 1,500 doctors and nurses are leaving Italy, reports the AMSI (association of doctors of foreign origin in Italy). Applications to the association came in particular from Veneto, Piedmont, Lombardy, Sicily, Sardinia, Emilia Romagna, Trentino and Lazio. 95 have arrived from the island, more than 30 per month .

The national figure is perfectly in line with that of last year: 6 thousand have left the country in 2023.

In order to move, everyone asked their respective professional bodies for a certificate of good conduct. And you don't leave out of vocation, to go and serve in war areas for example. We start "attracted by salaries that have no comparison with ours, by organization, by logistical support, by the possibility of growth" .

Most of the foreign professionals in the Gulf countries and in Europe at the moment are Italian, explains Amsi: «The Italian Government - is the appeal - must do everything possible to bring them back to our country, we will never stop saying it, increasing the wages, streamlining tax burdens and bureaucracy, improving the relationship between public and private healthcare, strengthening local healthcare to streamline hospital workloads ."

The national president of AMSI Foad Aodi says he is "available" to help Sardinia if the new council were to ask him. And he recalls what happened with the outgoing council: «They had contacted us, we found 150 highly specialized Jordanian doctors ready to move to Sardinia, but the Region didn't let us know anything further . Then we discovered that they focused on the Cubans. We are ready to help, as we are already doing with Sicily, but then we need to continue the initiatives undertaken."

(Unioneonline/L)