Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked the world causing more victims than the latest global epidemics such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2003, and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in 2012. Italy has been one of the most affected countries, and it had to deal with an already weak economic condition and cuts to public health services due to budgetary requirements from the last decade—something that made the situation even more dramatic. Deaths have exceeded 600.000 worldwide. During the emergency, regulatory measures were taken to counter the situation. This study highlights the main anti-COVID-19 government measures to support doctors and healthcare professionals, and it analyzes how to respond to the many requests complaining about neglectful healthcare professionals during the spread of the infection. For all those healthcare workers who died on duty, a compensation plan is assumed through a solidarity fund. The same solution cannot be granted to all patients, given the difficulty in assessing the responsibility of the doctor not only during an emergency but with insufficient instruments to cope with it as well.
Highlights
The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, which has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, has shocked the world [1]
In Italy, due to the many cuts to public health services of the past few decades, the emergency has been experienced by healthcare professionals as a sacrifice [3]
The state income support provides e600,00 to freelancer medics who have seen their turnover decreased by more than 33% starting from March and for no more than 90 days
Summary
The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, which has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020, has shocked the world [1]. From the GIMBE Evidence for Health foundation report, in the decade 2010–2019, the public financing of the National Health System increased by 8.8 billion euros, growing on average by 0.9% per year, a rate lower than that of inflation annual average growth of 1.07% [5] It grew in absolute terms, but less than inflation. With the inability to perform autopsies, it is difficult to state if the death has been caused by COVID-19 or other concomitant causes In this context, the measures taken by the Italian government mainly concerned financial and organizational benefits for all workers in the health sector who found themselves unemployed due to the pandemic. The aim of the “Cura Italia” and “Liquidity” decrees is to strengthen the human and instrumental resources of the national health service in the fight against the pandemic
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