“The deafening silence of the President of the Regional Council and the latest statements made to the press by the exponents of the center -right majority compared to the imminent works of energy efficiency and seismic adjustment of the Jazzolino hospital in Vibo Valentia, do not peek out anything good on the horizon. A story that, at the moment, appears more and more pervaded by many uncertainties and as many conjectures about the fate of the departments that will be the subject of interventions, and compared to which neither the top of ASP nor the representatives of the majority seem to have very clear ideas “.
This is what the regional councilors declare in a joint press release Antonio Lo SchiavoPresident of the Mixed-Liberally progressive group, e Raffaele Mammoliti of the Democratic Party, making known the question with a written response, addressed to the president of the regional council Roberto Occhiuto, on the redevelopment works that will affect the Jazzolino hospital of Vibo Valentia.
«Overall emerges – the slave and Mammoliti continue -, an underestimation of the problem to which you encounter headlights off: the dismantling of the departments (from what is argued indifferently so as not to lose the loan set up to validate on PNRR funds and regional resources ), accompanied to the uncertainty on the timing and the relocation of the same departments, throw the Vibonese population in total despair and risk setting up a deadly blow to the entire provincial health system. Moreover, in a phase in which the work of the new hospital appear far from achieving the finish line of a completion of the work by spring of 2026, given on several occasions reiterated by the president of the regional council. The health issue in the Vibonese has now taken on the traits of the real emergency, making the province and our city a unicum, in the negative, in the already compromised regional health framework. A territory, ours, which over the years has seen protects and guarantees in access to care gradually impoverished, with hospitals increasingly stripped of performance and services, and which will soon undergo a further leap in the dark with the transfer of the departments from the hospital of Vibo Valentia in others, not better identified, structures. In all this we have not yet listened to any word of reassurance (or denial of these risks) by the President of the Region and Commissioner to the Healthcare Occhiuto, entrenched in a “no comment” that has the flavor of the surrender in the face of a situation that It disassembles months of optimistic narration on the relaunch of Calabrian health. If the commissioner has decided to keep away from the topic, we then ask him to answer our board question which has the purpose of clarifying the fate of the city hospital “.
The slave and mammolites explain: «In the question we asked a few simple issues compared to which all citizens Vibonesa await answer. In detail, we ask to know: if there is a time schedule of the individual seismic adaptation and energy efficiency interventions to be performed in the Jazzolino hospital, divided by type and sector concerned; For what reason, although the resources available as early as 2022, today the urgent need to open construction sites by the end of February 2025 with considerable and worrying delay today; What is believed to be the repercussions on the regular and punctual provision of services and services to citizens; if it corresponds to the truth that the operating block and the surgery, orthopedics and ophthalmology departments must be immediately transferred and for how long it is expected to maintain the services and services provided by the aforementioned departments in another location; What other departments of the Jazzolino hospital will have to be transferred to another location, if the emergency room is also interested and with which timing and order of priority it will be intended to proceed; if there is a detailed allocation of the departments and the operating block and what it provides for the same plane; If the transfer of the departments and the operating block requires assignment procedures, tenders and additional economic resources, and if the same has been proceeded and the precise identification of the additional sources of financing “. On all these aspects – the slave and Mammoliti conclude – Vibonese citizens are confidently awaiting a finally clear answer. As far as we are concerned, we will activate any useful initiative in defense of the Vibonese public health system, also requesting the necessary rebalancing in terms of resources and beds “.