ERs across Italy risk closing
due to a lack of doctors, the president of the Italian society
of emergency medicine (SIMEU) said Friday.
Accident and emergency departments "from north to south, are
at risk of closure because the missing doctors are now over
2,000 and they can't cover the shifts any more," said Francesco
Rocco Pugliese.
Pugliese signed a document along with 50 ER chiefs containing
an "urgent proposal for the next five years" on hirings.
It proposes hirings non-specialist doctors, also newly
graduated ones, to be taken on at the same time as
supernumeraries in the schools of specialisation in urgent
medicine.
"Time has run out," it says.
ERs around Italy have been struggling to cope for years.
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