“I will bring to the attention of the Commissioner ad acta of the Calabrese Health Authority the complaint raised by Dr. Antonio Soccorso Capomollawith whom we spoke already on Friday 26th on the occasion of the next Council meeting during which the questions I have already presented regarding some health issues will be discussed. The complaint highlights the little attention that is given to the health system of Vibo Valentia, which represents the most dramatic and acute point of the crisis of the regional health system.“.
This is what the regional councilor of the Democratic Party states in a note, Raphael Mammoliti.
“I believe the time has come to act with targeted actions and initiatives shared by the entire ruling class of Vibo Valentia to demand the necessary attention to the many critical issues affecting the local health system. In this sense, I greatly appreciated the sensitivity of the new president of the Conference of Mayors, Enzo Romeo, who immediately took action to address the issue raised regarding the lower resources allocated to our reality. In these two years, I have denounced in all the appropriate venues the dramatic health situation of the Vibo Valentia area with regard to the hospital and territorial network; the lack of personnel; the repeated attacks on health workers; the inadequacy of the new emergency operations center; the lack of internal regulations in the Vibo Valentia hospital that govern the procedure for organ donations, removal and transplants; the total exclusion of the province of Vibo from the tender for the construction of helipads for the management of the helicopter rescue service, including at night; the concrete risk of closure of the Tropea and Serra San Bruno hospitals; some problems recorded in the transport of haemodialysis patients; etc…
I was forced, due to the inertia of those who hold positions of responsibility at various levels, to even write to the Minister of Health to provocatively ask him if the health system in Vibo Valentia could still be considered under the control of the State. There are, therefore, some historical problems that concern us all, for example, the number of beds far below those expected and that not even the reorganization of the new hospital network adequately rebalances. The risk of an effective dismantling of the public health system is increasingly real and the private sector does not always contribute with adequate appropriateness in terms of complementarity and integration.
In reiterating the attention to the important problem raised, I am, however, convinced that it will be necessary to address as a whole the many critical issues that characterize the entire health system of the Vibo Valentia area, to bring it back to a framework of efficiency and civilization”.