ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Defend the National Health Service that means defending citizens, the right to health and the quality of care. This is the message launched by the National Union of Ambulators and Poliambulators (UAP) which, during a press conference, announced a national event that will be held on March 14 in Rome.
“It is impoverishing our health. We want to save Italian health, we want to save Italians, treat them with strategies and quality. We are united, we want all the same things as, for example, to block the sale of the South that wants to bring the consortia. We want an Italy that if it has networks for everyone“. Mariastella Giorlandino, President UAP.
“We want to give a message to citizens: we do not want to be politicized by anyone because health is not political, health is content and support to the sick. Today we talk about quality, services and above all we talk to citizens – continues -. We have had interlocutions but we have not seen any facts. We won four Tars who said they said that the cuts were not adequate, there is a 70% cut on refunds that hits the South above all. If there are no funds, accredited private health closes and most often is sold to multinationals. An accredited structure to open must comply with 420 requirements, and it is right but we ask that anyone who does health comply with the requirements,” he concludes.
The first node concerns the tariff nomenclature, which establishes how much the SSN pays for each health benefit. Today many tariffs are sub-cost, as already recognized by TAR judgments, with a serious systemic effect: public health companies and accredited structures are forced to provide performance in loss, resulting in reduction of supply, elongation of waiting lists and aggravation of deficits, especially in regions in return plan. A mechanism that does not save, but weakens the SSN and discharges costs on citizens.
This adds the introduction of the so-called “service pharmacy”, conceived as a parallel channel for the provision of diagnostic services in derogation of the quality, safety and liability requirements for healthcare facilities. UAP points out that, as well as today configured, the pharmacy of services does not respond to a real goal of improving access to diagnostics, but introduces health services without the necessary authorization requirements, the result of lobbying pressures and not health planning oriented to the quality of care.
It is not enough, we are witnessing a reorganization of the health and territorial network launched without clear and shared criteria, which is likely to weaken the demands of proximity and to further remove services from citizens. Also in this case, the absence of certain rules produces inequalities, inefficiencies and loss of protection for patients. The overall result is an increasingly fragmented system, in which equal health benefits are subject to different rules, with a progressive lowering of guarantees for citizens. Approaching services can not mean bypassing rules, nor creating a dual-standard health.
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