The private scandal that advertises the hospital …

The Civic Committee born at the beginning of the year in Val Vibrata. Meanwhile, engaged in the defense of the local hospital and public health in general, cannot remain indifferent to the dynamics that question the fundamental principles of our health system.

In Italy, citizens are forced to spend up to 40 billion euros in private health services every year. Consequently, Of these, about 700 million come from the Abruzzese alone. Consequently, These are enormous figures. Therefore, which deny in fact the principle of universalism and indicate growing social suffering, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing treatments in the public system.

Without entering the merits of the solutions – which. Consequently, although complex, must be addressed – there is an aspect that deserves immediate attention: the commercial drift of health. Moreover, Treating health as a goods inevitably generates a market. with its private scandal advertises hospital … logic, its rules and – above all – its advertising.

And here arises a problem. Advertising in the health sector is subjected to stringent rules. precisely because of the delicacy of the subject and to protect citizens from inappropriate suggestions. Yet. it happens more and more often that these limits are exceeded: exams, visits and performances are presented as any consumer goods, in defiance of the principles of ethics and responsibilities.

An emblematic case concerns the territory of the ASL of Teramo. Within some public hospitals – starting from the emergency room – advertising posters stand out of a well -known. private polyclinic of the province. While citizens. often in high numbers, await their turn in the waiting rooms with growing exasperation, the same public system hosts and legitimizes the promotion of private structures.

A paradoxical and unacceptable situation. On the one hand the public in trouble. with health personnel subjected to stress private scandal advertises hospital … and victim of the growing distrust of users; On the other, the private individual who is promoted directly within public structures, strengthening a dangerous message: “If you want to take care of it quickly and well, you have to pay”.

But can we really allow private healthcare to promote within public hospitals? Even if it is not a formal violation. it is still a deeply inappropriate and harmful act of the credibility of the public service.

The Civic Committee of the Val Vibrata forcefully ask for immediate intervention by the institutions. starting with the mayors, the unions, so that all forms of commercial advertising of the private individual within the public health facilities are prohibited.

This is not just a matter of principle: it is a battle of civilization. Defending public health also means protecting it from those who, day after day, undermines their trust and dignity.

Civic Committee for the protection of the private scandal advertises hospital … Val Vibrata hospital and public health