The Pordenone healthcare reality is growing in the outpatient clinic thanks to 20 new specialists, thus opens the press release in which the construction of a new structure is announced. What better occasion to announce the new project of a private megaclinic than the inauguration of a mammography machine with tomosynthesis (worth 200 thousand euros) at the medical center headquarters in via Oberdan in the right-wing capital of Tagliamento. An opportunity that CEO Vincenzo Papes did not miss. Thus comes the news of the new green health building that will be built in Pordenone in, they specify, 18 months from now. “A private clinic of 3 thousand square meters which, we read in a note, responds to a growing need for health services for a population, the Friulian one, which has a higher average age than the national one. The Pordenone Medical Center is organized into two operational units: the headquarters in via Oberdan (formerly Naonis, health director Francesco Coran), where in addition to the outpatient clinic there is a diagnostic breast service, and that in via della Ferriera (health director Teresa Lacchin ), where in addition to the clinic there is also a blood sampling point. The potential of this combination of offices, located 500 meters away from each other, is 124 specialists in 40 branches, with growth with 20 new specialists entering service since the beginning of the year. The Pordenone Medicine Center is part of a group with over 50 offices in 4 regions of Italy (Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy and FVG), a network of private and affiliated healthcare facilities, this is the magic word that allows guaranteed money flows but stolen from public hospitals. The surreal thing, but appreciable in terms of entrepreneurial transparency, is that there is no hesitation in stating without hesitation that: “Today the demand for health services is significantly shifting towards the private sector, which requires adequate structures, which can complete the offer that the public is already predominantly offering. We are organized as a hub and spoke, with many first-level centers spread across the territory and second-level centers of excellence in the capitals. – explained Vincenzo Papes during the inauguration – Pordenone will soon be our provincial hub, with diagnostic excellence.
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It will cover the entire health chain, from clinical activity to follow-up through surgery and diagnostics. We are recording a growing use of insurance and health funds to cover the costs of services: visits, diagnostics but also interventions. We believe that companies will increasingly be the point of reference for covering the health costs of their employees, primarily through welfare and funds”. In short, everything is clear, what is not said is that these operations are “fluidized” by political choices on healthcare with the suspicion that there is precise planning to make the public system increasingly less efficient, which is impoverished among other things of fundamental human resources with the transition of doctors and nursing staff to the private sector. All health workers exasperated by unbearable working conditions. It is no coincidence that at the inauguration this morning, in addition to Doctor Francesco Coran, Health Director of the Medical Center in via Oberdan, and Doctor Teresa Lacchin, health director of the headquarters in Via della Ferriera, managers of the private structures, also Doctor Giuseppe Tonutti, General Director of the Western Friuli Health Company, the long hand of the Regional Health Councilor Riccardo Riccardi, who should safeguard public health, but also Guglielmina Cucci, Councilor for Social Policies of the Municipality of Pordenone. In short, politics at the service of private healthcare. After all, the theorem seems simple to make the regional public health system less and less efficient, with waiting lists for services that are out of control over time, ensuring that the nascent private initiatives can “save” the situation.
