The debate on city healthcare is heating up again, after the clashes between the majority led by the mayor Daniela Ghergo on one side, the governor Acquaroli and the councilors Saltamartini and Baldelli. “Today I tried to book hospital check-ups for my mother at the Cup – majority councilor Riccardo Ragni posted on social media. Cardiological examination: there is only room in Pesaro. Cardiac Doppler ultrasound ditto: one place only in Pesaro. For the eye exam we are doing better, there is also room in Urbino, as well as in Pesaro. Moral: either you go to the private sector or you give up. But we were too polemical and harsh against the regional administration during the city council last Thursday. We were unable to extract any promises and we made pure demagoguery, because, as we were told, things in Fabriano are now going much better.”
The launch triggers a deluge of comments, mostly complaints about the waiting lists. “Last month – writes a lady – I had an ultrasound and mammogram and they advised me to monitor a cyst every year. So I had the referral done immediately but at the Cup they told me that 2025 was full and for the 2026 the agendas were not yet open. I will necessarily have to do them privately if I want to follow the medical indications.” “I tried to book a cardiology visit last week – adds a girl – but they said that there is really no possibility in the Marche region here for… indefinitely”.
Fabriano Progressista intervenes on the issue from the city opposition: “Mayor Ghergo’s positions – they highlight – are in strong contrast with what the Democratic Party has stated up to now. It must also be recognized that the Acquaroli Council has blocked the construction of the strongly desired Pesaro hospital by the former governor Ceriscioli and which the Democratic Party, not even the local one, has ever criticized or opposed. A project which, if it had been implemented, would not only have derogated from the law which would have only allowed the Torrette hospital for the population of the Marche region. , but it would have definitively emptied all the garrisons in the hinterland, including Fabriano, and would have cost the regional budget in a public-private operation around 30 million euros a year for 30 years”. “We must note – they add – how the uncertainty of this administrative action on the one hand evokes the mountain area, when it suits it, and on the other hand transfers public services in total autonomy and without coordination with the other Municipalities, to the of Jesi”.
Sara Ferreri
