1.2 mn services at risk Wednesday due to doctors' strike

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 19 - An estimated 1.2 million healthcare services will be at risk Wednesday during a 24-hour strike by doctors, nurses, healthcare executives and other medical staff.
    The strike, which will feature a rally in a major Rome square, Piazza SS Apostoli, at midday Wednesday was called by doctors' unions Anaao and Cimo and by the nurses' union Nursing Up.
    The unions have said all scheduled medical services, including 50,000 ùX-rays, 15,000 surgeries and 100,000 visits with specialists are at risk while emergency procedures will be guaranteed.
    The walkout was organized against the 2025 budget bill which unions said allocates "insufficient resources" for pay rises to staff.
    Unions have complained about an overall reduction in healthcare funding in the budget bill.
    Healthcare personnel will also be protesting, among other things, over the lack of resources to immediately hire more healthcare workers and the absence of measures to boost security personnel at Italian hospitals after a wave of assaults reported over the past few months in Italy. (ANSA).