The regional councilor and group leader of the 5 Star Movement, Davide Tavernise, presented a question to the president of the regional council, which also holds the role of commissioner ad acta for health in Calabria, Roberto Occhiutoto ask what actions he intends to adopt to guarantee the full and definitive reopening of the Praia a Mare hospital.
“The failure to implement the judgments of the Council of State and the inertia that has lasted for years – highlighted Tavernise – are depriving the citizens of the Upper Tyrrhenian Cosentino of a fundamental right: access to adequate and timely care. The hospital of Praia a Mare, closed in 2010 and transformed into Capt, was at the center of a long legal battle conducted by citizens and local institutions. Restored as a basic hospital garrison in 2017, also the so -called “sciabic decree” reiterated the need to reopen the structure as a basic hospital.
The last intervention of the Council of State, with an order of 7 November 2024, has even led to the appointment of a new Commissioner ad acta, in charge of verifying whether the executive choices adopted by Commissioner Occhiuto with DCA no. 198 of 12 July 2023 comply with the provisions of the previous sentences and in the Sciabica decree. A decision that once again underlines the serious defaults of the Calabrian commissioner structure “.
In the meantime, according to Tavernise, “the situation of the Praia a Mare hospital remains alarming. The medical staff is insufficient: two only radiologists, one of which on leave, make the full use of magnetic resonance imaging impossible, purchased five years ago and again undergoing the emergency room operating with a single structured doctor, two Cuban doctors and a contract doctor, while the medicine department, while having 20 beds, is devoid of essential equipment such as an echocardiograph They suffer from serious deficiencies, with the absence of fundamental figures such as the otolaryngohra and the pediatrician. aggravating the phenomenon of passive mobility and the economic loss for Calabrian healthcare. in compliance with the regulatory provisions and judgments of the Council of State. Citizens’ health can no longer wait. “