Failure to approve the amendment to Decree-law of 27 December 2024, n. 202known as Milleproroghe decreeleft the Calabria still below Commissioner for the implementation of the return plan from the regional health deficits. The conversion of the decree into the Law 21 February 2025, n. 15 in fact he extended up to March 31, 2025 The terms for the approval of the financial statements of the regional health companies, without predicting the exit from extraordinary management. A decision that has not gone unnoticed to local administrators, including the The mayor of Castrolibero, Orlandino Grecowhich launches an appeal to the government for a revision of the distribution of National Health Fund.
‘Calabria deserves to resume the management of its health. The commissioner cannot be eternal ‘says the first citizen, underlining how the failure to approve the amendment represents a lost opportunity for the region. ‘If the amendment had been accepted, we could have started a path of normalization, guaranteeing a return to the ordinary management of regional health’ ‘.
The main problem remains the management of the previous budgets of the Provincial Health Authorities of Cosenza and Reggio Calabriaa condition imposed for the exit from the commissioner phase. ‘The deductive method proposed for the reconstruction of the financial statements is not enough for a transparent analysis of the accumulated debt. We need a structural solution and not buffer measures’adds Greco.
The request for a revision of the financing criteria
The mayor of Castrolibero also proposes a revision of the division criteria of the National Health Fundcurrently based on Pesata Capital share. ‘It is necessary to overcome this system, adopting parameters that take into account morbidity, chronicity, socio -economic deprivation and conformation of the territory’explains Greco, underlining the need for an infrastructure equalization fund to guarantee fair health care for all regions.
An appeal to the government: ‘sterilize health debt’
Finally, the first citizen makes a clear request to the central government: ‘We must historicize and sterilize the regional health debt, only in this way can we definitively leave the commissioner and the return plan. Calabria cannot continue to pay the price of an inefficient system ‘.
Greco concludes by highlighting a problem that weighs on the entire South: ‘The current situation favors passive health mobility, forcing Calabrian citizens to move to the northern structures, with an expense that exceeds billion euros per year. It is a system that must be changed ‘.
The appeal is launched. Now it remains to be seen if the government will welcome the requests of local administrators for a concrete change in the management of Calabrian health.