INPS needs coroners. The new president of INPS, Pasquale Tridico, had anticipated it on 21 March: “It is necessary to hire 8-900 coroners. The last competition took place thirty years ago and today INPS has no more than 450 doctors left, mostly elderly. To carry out the tasks of ascertaining invalidity, the institute is therefore forced to make use of about 1.100 private doctors with an agreement plus another thousand for tax control visits".
In order to make up for this deficiency, the number one of the National Institute of Social Security has given the go-ahead to start a public selection aimed at recruiting 1.404 doctors "for the performance of freelance assignments for the purpose of carrying out medico-legal obligations", reads the INPS note
The task of these professionals will be to ascertain the degree of civil invalidity, civil blindness, deafness, disability and handicap on the basis of the impairments affecting the person requesting the recognition of the economic services paid by the INPS.
"In the face of the increase in skills - communicates the institute - there has been a progressive reduction in the number of coroners employed by the Institute, therefore, in order to ensure the effectiveness of the medico-legal operating unit, it is need to recruit doctors.
The aforementioned doctors will be recruited with self-employment contract, by means of a public selection notice, and will practice as a freelancer for one year.
"Tridico - finally announces the INPS - has also taken the decisions that will allow the launch of public notices for the agreement of medical specialists and social workers".
