FAVIGNANA (TRAPANI) (ITALPRESS) – To identify innovative and common lines in order to develop health microsystems for Italy’s smaller islands that are able to decline the principles of the National Health System in a clear and homogeneous way, guaranteeing high-level and equitable health care even in marginalized territories, as provided for by the constitutional charter: is the goal of the “Favignana Charter,” which will be elaborated at the XXI ANSPI congress, the national health association of small islands, which for years has been promoting initiatives aimed at protecting and improving the health of island citizens throughout Italy. During the two-day event, scheduled in the former Florio factory in Favignana on Friday, Oct. 11 and Saturday, Oct. 12, about 100 general managers of ASLs and ASPs that have jurisdiction over various Italian islands, experts and institutional representatives will discuss organizational models, operational tools and system opportunities.
“The idea of making our congress useful and effective by creating a valuable reference document for island health care stems from the observation that Italian islands, small and not so small, present the same critical issues and problems, in the light of strongly connoted common traits,” explains ANSPI National President Gianni Donigaglia, “the history, the evolution of political, social and economic dynamics, the aspects related to health, thus services provided, access to care, isolation and seasonalization, difficulties in connections, etc. go to delineate a kind of peculiar political ecosystem that shows great difficulty in being effectively declined in the different geographic-administrative locations of the different Regions, in which the Islands appear as absorbed by the general context.”
The meeting is organized in collaboration with the ASP of Trapani and the Municipality of Favignana: “With this event we continue the virtuous and truly avant-garde path already undertaken by our provincial health company,” emphasizes ASP Trapani General Director Ferdinando Croce. “A few months ago we had signed a memorandum of understanding with ASP Messina, aimed at sharing common actions and strategies to address the health issues of the Sicilian islands of competence; now Favignana will become a national trailblazer to turn the spotlight on user needs detected and analyzed, and on possible solutions. We hope that the findings of the event can become a serious support for national and regional decision makers for an important segment, the health segment, of the framework law on the smaller islands. In fact, a very detailed working document, the Charter of Favignana precisely, will be presented by the dg of the health agencies that host islands in their territories of competence.”
Particularly satisfied is the mayor of Favignana Francesco Forgione: “Honored to welcome to the Egadi Islands a congress of such importance that, I am sure, will turn into a strong stimulus for the political and institutional world to review and update the strategic objectives of the PNRR and the resources for the smaller islands. We need to define specific spaces within our complex SSN also in light of the risks of differentiated autonomies.”
The congress, which will have Giuseppe Novara as its president, will be a restarting point of a path started by ANSPI already more than 20 years ago with the then Health Minister Girolamo Sirchia: the amount of work produced in this long time will be enhanced in a process of real systemization of useful and effective tools.
The program will be divided into two sessions: on Friday 11 “Virtuous synergies: organization, skills, technologies” with a focus on ICT digitization, artificial intelligence and ethics of application in the smaller islands; on Saturday 12 “Rereading contexts and enhancing NHS equity” with a focus on the issues of frailty as a systemic element and legislative and regulatory tools such as Ministerial Decree 77.
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