Annunziata di Cosenza worst hospital in Italy

Calabrian healthcare continues to deal with health tourism, the shortage of doctors and beds and, more generally, conditions that deprive citizens of the right to health. Second Carlo Guccionemember of the national leadership of the Democratic Party, “the Annunziata hospital, despite the excellent medical professionals present and the recent hirings by the university, is defined by the national agency Agenas “the worst hospital in Italy”. And unfortunately, as we know, there is never an end to the worst“.

Beds wanted

“The most evident point of a currently unstoppable decline – continues Guccione – concerns i beds. Of the 730 acute care beds envisaged by the DCA of the hospital network, 425 are actually active, i.e. 305 fewer beds. Can a hub facility offer an efficient hospital service for those who need treatment and who come from the entire largest province of Calabria?”.

“And from an economic and financial point of view, can a company survive which today sees a dramatic collapse in revenues from surgical and outpatient activities and therefore in services? A huge budget hole. Only in this way can we explain the enormous difference between labor costs and the total value of production and provision of services. To put it another way the cost of Annunziata’s work is equal to 53.8% of the total costthe highest percentage among Calabrian companies”.

Private healthcare at the expense of citizens

“The current management is responsible for a disorganization that produces less than it costs. L’Annunziata provides fewer services to patients. A top-down and authoritarian management that favors the continuous and unjustified use of external consultancy, which accumulates enormous delays in technological modernization and which does not make the most of the internal human resources assets”.

“What what is missing, first of all, is a real vision through the development of an operational plan that includes a detailed timetable for the opening of the 305 beds missing. And which forces tens and hundreds of people with a diagnosis to camp out for days and days in the emergency room, waiting for some place to become available that should be there on paper but isn’t there”.

Spoke risk

“From December 2022 to today, date of nomination of de Salazar at the top of the Annunziata, the critical issues have increased rather than the opposite. Disservices, complaints, internal and external inspections are recorded daily. Lastly, a mass escape from the operating block, with a request for resignations and transfers, which demonstrates that in the beating heart of a hub hospital like the one in Cosenza there is something seriously wrong. And that puts the health of all citizens at risk.”

“Only proclamations and good intentions from de Salazar. We expect concrete actions with a clear assumption of responsibility with deeds and commitments and certain dates. We can no longer continue like this. De Salazar – concludes Guccione – must put less effort into providing consultancy and much more intoprevent the Annunziata hub from being downgraded to spoke. Watch out, if he’s there and we know he’s there, he’ll strike… ”.