Using the former Ciapi premises: a new proposal has emerged to keep the Gallico polyclinic in business, after the last meeting with the ASP decided to extend by one year, with a bridging contract, the lease of the current premises, which will still be closed.
Domenico Francesco Richichi, member of the regional management of the Democratic Party, suggested a possible solution: «The general director of the ASP, Lucia Di Furia, expressed clear and sincere considerations on the need to make cuts imposed by the government on rents and assured that, while waiting for an appropriate solution, which allows us to identify public premises to which to transfer the Gallico clinic, the same, at least for the next year, will not be closed. But the problem remains and, unfortunately, during the meeting, no viable alternative solutions were discussed, which do exist. In this context, we need to identify some perspectives».
Hence the idea of «transferring, upon expiration of the lease of the premises in via Quarnaro, temporarily, the ASP offices to the Arpacal premises in via Troncovito in Gallico, currently underused by the Region» and «for the longer term, starting a feasibility study that has as its object the opening of a structure serving the northern area of and the valleys of Catona, Gallico and Torbido, as well as Archi and Arghillà, in the premises of the former Ciapi in Catona, currently, for three quarters, unused. Both the sites indicated – Richichi points out – are owned by the Region and, in particular, the former Ciapi structure is just waiting to be renovated».
On the subject of passive rents of the ASP, after having participated in the meeting of the last few days, the majority municipal councilor Giuseppe Giordano (Reset) also returns: «It is a topic that cannot concern the Gallico structure, which is a facility that is always in the black both in terms of performance and economics, taking into account that the right to health can never be considered a “cost”.