Italy's doctors and other medical
staff staff said Wednesday they will strike on Wednesday
November 20 against the 2025 budget bill which they described as
"disappointing" in the pay rises to staff it envisages.
Premier Giorgia Meloni has said the package gives unprecedented
funding to the national health service but the opposition denies
this.
The strike, which will feature a rally in a major Rome square,
was called by doctors' unions Anaao and Cimo and by the nurses'
union Nursing Up.
The text of the budget bill for 2025, the unions explained,
"confirms the reduction in healthcare funding compared to what
was announced in recent weeks and changes the rules of the game
compared to what has been proclaimed for months".
The pacakge, they pointed out, provides for an increase in the
medical health specificity allowance of 17 euros net for doctors
and 14 euros net for healthcare managers for 2025, 115 euros in
2026 for doctors and zero for healthcare managers, while nurses
would receive about 7 euros for 2025 and about 80 euros for
2026, and it is no better for other healthcare professions.
Moreover, they said, "we are talking about resources linked, for
the most part, to a contract whose discussion will only begin in
at least two years, and which will arrive in the pockets of
those concerned who knows when. In short, essentially crumbs
that offend the entire category".
The unions Anaao Assomed, Cimo-Fesmed and Nursing Up therefore
proclaimed a 24-hour national strike on November 20 of doctors,
health managers, nurses and other health professionals.
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