A crowded square welcomed the secretary of the Democratic Party yesterday, Elly Schlein, who spoke in San Giovanni in Fiore for an electoral rating in front of the city hospital in view of the next regional elections in Calabria focused on public health and on the difficulties that the Region lives, especially in the internal areas.
The dem leader strongly denounced the choice of the Meloni government to reduce the weight of health expenditure compared to GDP: “It is not a sloppy, it’s a drawing. Just close the taps of resources to empty the departments and push citizens to the private individual”said Schlein, remembering how the executive did not welcome the proposals of the opposition to use 5.5 billion available and immediately destined for the intake of doctors and nurses.
Particular attention was paid to the 118 critical issues in Calabria and the delays in care: “It is not acceptable to wait two hours an ambulance, it is not acceptable to die like this. There is a right written in the Constitution, article 32, which guarantees everyone’s health”. The secretary also wanted to remember the story of Serafino Congi, asking truth and justice on a case that shook the local community.
Schlein spoke of “health migration”, denouncing how the region spends about 260 million euros every year to pay care to the Calabrians forced to move out of the territory: “So the citizens pay twice: with taxes and travel to cure themselves”.
The speech has also expanded to social and economic policies: from the minimum salary – “Under 9 euros per hour is not work, it is exploitation” – to support the internal areas, with proposals for dementiament for craftsmen and local businesses. The condition of women is also central: “When the services are missing, those who give up work are above all them. This is unfair and is uneconomical”.
Finally, an appeal to the vote: “It is not true that it does not make the difference. It does it all right, you can see on these things. We put public health in the first place, because the Calabrians are not citizens of Serie B”.