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We are medical professionals,
heart surgeons and nephrologists.

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We are tired
of working

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without social, political and
economic recognition.

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We are exhausted from the shifts.
No new people are being hired

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or they all run away. As soon as they 
set foot in the hospital

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they flee to the private sector...

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Because of stress, money. There is no
Support for public health.

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I am a radiotherapist and 
oncologist working in Rome.

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We are a category that has experienced 
a shortage of assistant doctors,

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which in turn will lead to a
shortage of specialists

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due to low salaries 
and a bad quality of life

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in public hospitals.

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I am a junior doctor, studying 
internal medicine in my third year.

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We staff and run the 
outpatient clinics,

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Because there is a 
lack of regular staff.

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We are sometimes even 
left alone on the ward.

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We are tempted to go abroad,
but we stay in Italy,

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because we love our country, we want
the health service not to fail.

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1,650 euros net, with rent,
fixed costs, university fees.

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Sometimes I don't make it 
to the end of the month.

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Forget about starting a family,
so we really have to struggle.

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We had calculated that we 
earn about €3.50 per hour.

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It is not acceptable that an
assistant doctor earns so little.

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They don’t even have the protection
of being a permanent employee.

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Overtime is unpaid we 
get 1,300 net per month

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and the shifts are exhausting.

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We work at least 12 hours 
a day, six days a week,

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when we're only supposed 
to work 8 hours five days a week.

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Last year, I worked in surgery 
in the northeast of Italy,

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I worked between 100 
and 120 hours per week.

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I was getting €2.30 net per hour 
as a doctor and a surgeon.

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We are taking to the streets because 
defending the nursing profession

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means defending the citizens.

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Exceptional is 
only the work

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of the health personnel 
on the ground

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who are maintaining a system that 
has truly reached an impasse.

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We are here today to
send two messages.

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The first message to the citizens:
Like you, we are also victims

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of the dismantling of the service. 
We are not the executioners!

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The other message is
to the government:

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Four key words: resources,
reforms, security and training.

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We are in favour of equal care,
regardless of gender and origin,

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and we will continue 
to fight for

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the provision of
public healthcare.

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There is a 
precise plan

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for the destruction of 
the public health service

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on the part of 
this government.

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Certainly there has been

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a decline in health services 
for over 20 years.

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This budget will 
probably not

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provide the push needed
to turn the crisis around.

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If I invest a lot of money 
to buy technology

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and at the same time I cap spending ,
then the result is to cut staff.

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It is clear that if there are 
no funds and no nurses,

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then the services
will not be provided.

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There will be patients who 
cannot be resuscitated,

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and I say that as a 
resuscitating anaesthetist,

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if there is no new money
for public health.

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There will no longer be a free 
health system for all.

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What motivates you 
to stay in Italy?

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Emigrating is not easy.

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Leaving the family,
leaving the home.

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And then it would
also not be right.

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It would not be right
for our citizens.

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I believe in the mission.

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Being a doctor is not a profession, 
it is a life choice.

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The strong motivation 
comes from within.

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I stay in Italy because 
of my family,

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because I believe in the possibility 
of changing this system.

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But there are so many
colleagues I know

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who have left Italy,
for France, for Germany,

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where not only the
salaries are higher,

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but also the recognition 
for health workers.

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A year ago, I was already 
here on the street,

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despite the commitment 
of the Ministry of Health.

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Unfortunately, the resources 
are still insufficient.

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A crisis that goes back many years
to previous governments.

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The devolution of health care 
to the regions was the death blow.

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With a government that says you
don't need a minimum wage in this country.

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There are junior doctors who

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say that if you take 
the university fees out,

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they earn between 
€2 and €4 per hour.

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It's a paradox, 
because they leave.

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So we spend €200,000
to train a doctor,

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who will leave, because 
we won't pay them.

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Only morons do that!

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They are nationalists and let
the people we train

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go abroad

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and they take foreign workers,

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who, of course, have 
every right to work here!

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But it's nonsense.

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You just have to want it.
You can get the money

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by taxing additional profits,
you can fight tax evasion.

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The Italians can’t seek medical 
attention. Those who have money can.

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Crosetto and Prime Minister Meloni

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ask for the Stability Pact to be repealed
in order to buy more weapons.

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We ask for the repeal

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so that more doctors and 
nurses can be employed!

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Minister Schillaci is sitting next to
Undersecretary Gemmato,

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who owns shares 
in private hospitals

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and cheerfully says: The waiting lists 
in the public hospitals are too long,

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come to me.

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There is a huge wage gap.
I know that nurses in India

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earn about $500 a month

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if they come to Italy.

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They would probably be 
paid less than our nurses

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so future labour contracts
will probably be adjusted

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to these conditions.

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I have worked in Germany.

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We also have to imagine
that the constant abandonment

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leads to a further 
deterioration in care.

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We have to commit ourselves

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to try to defend what has been 
achieved over the years.

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I was suggested 
staying abroad,

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there are free 
refresher courses,

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there are also opportunities for career
advancement, which is not the case in Italy.

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I received an offer 
as a recent graduate

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to Germany, where the salary 
was three and a half times as high.

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We are increasingly exploited

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to fill the holes left by the
public administration.

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It's not just a 
question of salaries,

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it's about the 
dignity of work.

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We've always been so critical
of the American health system.

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But we are moving
in that direction.

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Doctors in private hospitals have had
the same contracts for twenty years,

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They give money to private organisations,
but I have the impression

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that this money goes to the employers 
and not to those who work there.

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If we are not listened to,
we will inevitably

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make our absence 
felt in the hospitals,

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not only for one day. Maybe 
there will even be mass cancellations.

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The citizens are
extremely disappointed,

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endless waiting lists and they are 
forced to seek private care.

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A section of the population

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today decided 
not to be treated.

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They can't get access 
to a specialist.

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I ask the citizens to 
be on our side.

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We are not defending a powerful 
caste. We are defending

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health workers who want to 
remain in the public service

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and who want to guarantee 
high-quality care!

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I sincerely hope that public
health care will be saved.

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Do you still believe in it?

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I want to say yes.

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That's why I'm here.