On the occasion of the World Fibromyalgia Day, the Municipality of Reggio Calabria, on the address of the mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà, joined the awareness campaign on the so -called invisible disease. Also this year Palazzo San Giorgio, following the invitation received by the Reggina Fibromyalgia Association, lit up in Viola to draw attention to a very widespread but still little known pathology. “A gesture of attention – said the mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà – towards our fellow citizens who have been fighting, within the associations for years, for the recognition of this pathology, still too often invisible and therefore even more complicated to manage “.
Fibromyalgia, called the disease invisible with one hundred symptoms, is a chronic painful syndrome, whose cause has not yet been clarifiedbut recent studies have shown a central awareness characterized by a dysfunction of the neurological circuits in charge of the processing of impulses from peripheral areas of the brain that regulate pain. In most cases, the sick unfortunately do not yet have the right to the services of the National Health Service since fibromyalgia is not included in the essential levels of assistance (Lea).
The Municipality of Reggio Calabria and the Metropolitan City in recent years, precisely following several interlocations with territorial associations, have approved two respective motions, with the aim of inviting the Calabria Region to recognize fibromyalgia as an invalidating disease, inserting it among the pathologies recognized in the Lea.
The mission of the associations is to promote activities aimed at information and obtaining the institutional recognition of fibromyalgical syndrome. In this context, on the occasion of the World Fibromyalgia Day, the project “Let’s shed light on fibromyalgia” was promoted by the mayors of the whole national territory to illuminate Viola a monument or a place of important history or culture of the city. Together with the city of Reggio Calabria, the municipalities of Genoa, Naples, Turin, Bologna, Florence, Milan, Cosenza, Catanzaro and many others have joined the project, which have illuminated monuments and institutional buildings of viola.