Sardinia: an extra EUR 2,000 per month for doctors who set up practice in disadvantaged areas

Two thousand euro a month more for doctors who will open outpatient clinics in disadvantaged areas. This is what is envisaged by the implementation agreement signed between the Region (represented by President Alessandra Todde, who is also acting as interim head of the Health Department) and the trade unions of Sardinia's general medical practitioners, which provides for an additional economic allowance for doctors who choose to operate in inconvenient locations or with a serious shortage of assistance.

"This is a long-awaited measure that makes it possible to give concrete answers to the territory and which," the Region emphasises, "together with the gradual infrastructuring of the Afts and Community Homes, can also have a positive impact on the emergency room front, with reference to minor codes. An important step, as the local administrators of the small centres, forced to deal with the absence of general practitioners on a daily basis, also emphasise. 'We have closed another important step with the general medicine doctors,' emphasises President Todde. 'The agreement signed with all the trade unions in the category recognises an incentive of 2,000 euro per month for doctors who choose to open their own outpatient clinics in the disadvantaged areas of our island. That's not all, because the measure 'joins other specific incentives that will be set up by the local authorities, hence the mayors, the communities'.

"The allowance is envisaged for two years and will cover a hundred or so inconvenient locations," the governor argues. Of course, there is still a long way to go and this is a step along the way, but the important thing is that we can work together with the general practitioners to build a homogeneous response to the citizens' demand for health, with the Afts and the new community centres that will have to be filled and will have to have uniform service charters, becoming a point of reference for the territory also through the implementation of the most advanced equipment such as telemedicine, to finally succeed in building that connective tissue that is still missing in our territories.