The regional councilor and group leader of the 5 Star Movement in the Regional Council, Davide Tavernise, He launches a cry of alarm on a question that touches the heart of the right to health in Calabria: the chronic absence of the pharmacist at the territorial pharmacy of San Giovanni in Fiore. A strong complaint, that of Tavernise, which collects and relaunches the appeal of the citizen Domenico Caruso, exasperated by a disservice that puts the life and dignity of the patients in the area at risk.
“We are faced with an unprecedented situation of gravity“, says Tavernise in an official note.” The case of San Giovanni in Fiore is not a simple isolated episode, but a Emblem of systemic collapse of Calabrian health, in particular in the internal and mountain areas. The territorial pharmacy is the only garrison available for the supply of life -saving drugs, indispensable for many chronic patients. “
The closure, even on weekends, and the chronic deficiency of the pharmacist in the St. John in Fiore structure force citizens to travel up to 45 minutes of travel to reach the nearest alternative, located in Rende. An unsustainable discomfort, especially for those who live daily with serious diseases.
“It is inconceivable to save people on people’s skin – underlines Tavernise – while elsewhere we witness unacceptable waste. In a territory where the territorial pharmacy also acts as a reference point for ordinary pharmacies, we cannot allow it to be left without a pharmacist. It is an institutional responsibility no longer postponable. “
The regional councilor addresses directly to the mayor of San Giovanni in Fiore, Rosaria Succurro, and to the Commissioner ad acta for health as well as president of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiutoasking immediate and decisive interventions. “It is necessary to mend this territorial tear – he declares – e fully guarantee the right to health of citizens, as sanctioned by the Constitution. “
Tavernise’s intervention is thus made a spokesperson for a widespread discontent, transforming an individual report into a wider warning on the need for rethink the priorities of public health. “Healthcare cannot be the victim of indiscriminate cuts or bureaucratic slowness – he concludes – because behind all delay, behind every service denied, there are real lives, concrete pains and fundamental rights trampled.”