Puglia, anti-Covid vaccination becomes mandatory for health professionals

2021-02-24T08:35:38.763Z

In Puglia, anti-Covid 19 vaccination becomes mandatory for health professionals, in order to prevent and control the transmission of the infection. This was decided by the Regional Council, late yesterday evening, with 28 votes in favor, two interruptions for in-depth studies, one by the majority and the other by the opposition and the suspension due to lack of a quorum, with its update at the next hour . The bill presented by the President of the Commission, Fabiano Amati, is in line with the safety provisions provided for by regional law 19 of 2018 and the subsequent implementing regulation, on the prevention and control of the transmission of infections with particular reference to hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, flu and tuberculosis. The law is aimed at health professionals who carry out their professional activity within the structures belonging to the national health service, and has the purpose of preventing and protecting the health of those who frequent the health centers. '' Puglia's decision to make the obligation effective also for anti-Covid-19 vaccination - commented Amati, who is president of the Budget and Planning Commission - is a political decision agreed with health and science, in the wake of a law already in force approved in the last legislature on the proposal of my colleague Francesca Franzoso and declared fully constitutional with a sentence written by Marta Cartabia, current Minister of Justice ''. '' As everyone knows, there is a very high percentage of health workers not vaccinated against Covid, who are therefore declared unsuitable to carry out the activity in risk wards, oncology, hematology, pulmonology, infectious diseases, operating rooms , intensive care and others, and affect the formation of shifts. All this is intended to remedy by extending the regional legislation in force to the anti-Covid vaccination regarding the execution of vaccination obligations, considered legitimate with Constitutional Court Sentence number 137 of 2019, rapporteur Marta Cartabia, current Minister of Justice. It is quite clear - concluded Amati - that the implementation of the vaccination obligation for health workers does not exhaust the range of problems between us, the pandemic and the immunity of the population, but offers an additional tool; and all this on the basis, moreover, of a point of view in the past well argued by the so-called Carta di Pisa, which saw the Apulian councilor Lopalco among its authors ''.