«The provocation of the mayor of Belcastro, who with an ordinance with a strong symbolic impact prohibited citizens from falling ill, to denounce the absurd health situation in which the territory finds itself, must be a wake-up call for the government and the ministry of Health. Entire communities are left alone in front of such a fundamental right as that of health. The mayor’s gesture as dramatic as it is emblematic, almost contextual to the tragic death of Serafino Congi due to the late arrival of a medical ambulance, keeps the spotlight on the abandonment of inland and mountain areas, where the right to health is trampled on daily by the healthcare system”. This was stated in a press release: Vittoria BaldinoM5S deputy group leader in Montecitorio.
«The need for an extraordinary plan to strengthen health services in internal and disadvantaged areas, as I have already denounced with an urgent question to the Minister of Health, is increasingly urgent – continues Baldino. It is essential to guarantee the full operation of the former medical guards, adequate 118 coverage and the strengthening of hospital facilities encouraging healthcare personnel to choose to work in inland and mountain areas. Above all, it is necessary to act and for Occhiuto to do so as government commissioner because we need concrete facts on the point and no more waste of time. For example, the provision, as announced by Minister Schillaci in recent months, of having general practitioners work a few more hours in community homes is not enough. As reported by the doctors themselves, a real structural reform of primary care is needed which, from training to contract, is functional to a multi-professional and integrated organization around people. Belcastro’s cry – he concludes – cannot go unheard: the right to health is not negotiable and must not be subject to territorial disparities”.