“We said no to this hospital network because the decision of the Schifani government to make Palermo the hub for pediatric cardiac surgery is an absurdity, unjustified and shameful. It is a choice that tramples the children and their families and that demonstrates, once again, the arrogance and the Menefreghism of this regional government”.
This was denounced him with Forza Antonio De Luca, group leader of the 5 Star Movement who with his colleague Gilisto, when voting the hospital network, presented a resolution to defend the Taormina structure which, on the basis of this new program, would be relegated to Spoke, while Palermo would become Hub. “In this resolution – explains the pentastellato deputy – I asked that Taormina is guaranteed a complex operating unit of pediatric cardiac surgery and not a simple unit as they decided instead; that the structure remains in the end of the ASP of Messina and is not transferred administratively to the Papardo; and above all that it maintains its full administrative autonomy, without being employed by the Palermo. They are clear, concrete and indispensable points to safeguard Taormina’s excellence “.
The group leader at the Ars of the 5 Star Movement specifies: “The numbers are clear: the center of Palermo, two years after its birth, has worsened its performances until it decreases active beds because it could not even fill them. Taormina, on the contrary, guaranteed excellence, results and quality of the care. And despite this, the Schifani government relegates Taormina to simple spoke, removing the role of reference center and Folding it to Palermo -power and protagonism logic “.
“I am not explaining how the commissioner Faraoni, who has repeatedly declared that he had only closed inactive beds, could have kept those of the Palermo Center intact and on the contrary downsized the center of Taorminese excellence. This is the truth: it is not about health, nor of merit, but only a political operation for the advantage of Palermo and the detriment of the Sicilian children. Schifani and deputies who have voted in favor of this choice will be responsible for this choice. Sciagurato.