The Calabria Region assigns state resources intended for reducing waiting lists to health service companies. The ad acta commissioner for the health debt recovery plan, Roberto Occhiuto – through the regional Department of Health and Welfare and with the support of the extraordinary commissioner of Azienda Zero, Gandolfo Miserendino – with his decree, has allocated to the health and hospital companies of Calabria the total sum of 20,059,767.47.
The management of waiting lists is one of the main objectives of the health system of the Calabria Region, above all, in relation to the effect on the state of health and on the increase in costs borne by citizens who decide to resort to paid services or outside the Region . Therefore, the allocation of these resources to provincial health authorities and hospitals aims to contribute to a significant reduction in expectations.
Specifically, the sums assigned are distributed as follows:
4,160,519.66 euros to the Asp of Cosenza;
1,388,929.28 to the Asp of Crotone;
2,336,932.10 to the ASP of Catanzaro;
1,083,330.20 to the Asp of Vibo Valentia;
3,913,146.32 to the Asp of Reggio Calabria;
2,207,110.90 to the hospital of Cosenza;
2,787,663.75 to the Dulbecco University Hospital;
2,182,135.25 to the Reggio Calabria hospital.
We also proceeded with the assignment of additional resources for the waiting list recovery activity carried out during the years 2022-2023 for services not provided during the years 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, with the following breakdown:
Cosenza hospital (664,036.30 euros);
Dulbecco University Hospital (357,609.69 euros);
Hospital of Reggio Calabria (1,278,501.70 euros).
Now, the provincial and hospital health authorities of the regional health service must, within thirty days, adopt an operational plan for the reduction of waiting lists regarding surgical services, outpatient specialists (first visits and diagnostic tests) and oncological screenings ( these only for the ASPs) and approve an executive timetable of activities and expenditure.
This is what we read in a note from the Health and Welfare Department of the Calabria Region.