Hospital docs appeal for more cash, staff

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 7 - Italy's hospital doctors on Friday urgently appealed to the government to lay on more money and staff to avert what they called a "health Caporetto", a national catastrophe named after a crushing WWI defeat to the Austrians.
    "We need money and staff to get out of the emergency," said the hospital doctors largest trade union, Anaao Assomed.
    They proposed a five-point plan: entrust vaccines and swabs to the 50,000 doctors getting their specializations; pension-age staff volunteering to stay on; opening up to foreign doctors; recognizing idemnities; and involving the private sector more.
    (ANSA).