“The plain of Gioia Tauro, for almost 20 years, has been waiting for the new hospital that will have to arise in Palmi. Further, unbearable, delays would be equivalent to the almost manifest will not wanting to achieve it. So, si find the sums as soon as possible to update the economic framework of the project and proceed without delaying more».
The metropolitan mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà invests the governor Roberto Occhiuto directly from the matter: «I welcome the recent fears expressed by the President of the Region with strong concern with respect to the increase in the price indexes that could compromise the fulfillment of a work of vital importance for the whole metropolitan territory. I have no doubts, however, that the Governor Occhiuto, as extraordinary commissioner for the health emergency in Calabria, will be able to take action, at the Government, to recover the necessary funding. Moreover, so it was for the nosocomes of Sibari and Vibo Valentia, whose projects proceed quickly. Otherwise, different treatments would seem inexplicable and at the limit of territorial discrimination ».
“The plain of Gioia Tauro – continues Falcomatà – since the regional center -right administrations have decreed the closure of a multitude of hospitals along the entire area, suffers from an inadmissible surface in the complex health sector that undermines the foundations the sacrosanct right of each citizen to a public and efficient health system. The only operating hospital, that of Polistena, succumbs to respond to the needs of an audience of over 150 thousand citizens. Considering, then, the sizing of the structure of Gioia Tauro, the picture becomes desolately dramatic ».
“It is clear – concludes the metropolitan mayor – how important the construction of the large hospital of the Piana is, an area in which public health care is becoming a privilege for a few. The Region and the Commissioner for Health, therefore, have the ethical and moral obligation, even before economic, to produce every possible effort so that it comes to find a definitive solution to a problem that has its roots in an illogical and senseless austerity policy. The metropolitan city and the population of the plain can no longer wait ».