While the electoral political civitas of Orvieto debates the Manifesto of non-hostile communication, a bit like the wise men discussed the sex of angels with Constantinople occupied, in Terni the architects Marchetti and Franke, of the Association of star architect Mario Ridolfi, present to the president of the Regional Council of Umbria on Tesei “two project hypotheses for the new Santa Maria di Terni, one which evaluates the construction of a new structure on the site of the existing one for 515 million, the other an expansion with an estimated value of around 300 millions”.
This design vision is however anchored to a garrison of Terni on Terni for Terni, so to speak ternanocentric, without any contextualization with the regional and interregional health function of the system, incapable in itself of exceeding the geographical perimeter of the city and without interrelation with the entire border world and its needs for integration between territory and high specialty hospitals.
It is clear, on the contrary, that the need for a hospital healthcare response for a vast catchment area cannot exclude a more realistic, prudent and economically attainable evaluation in relation to the Cammartana area of Narni, a de facto absolutely Terni territory, avoiding project hypotheses that foresee two neighboring hospitals but a single basin complex, however functionally connected to another reality that is both set aside and strategically essential in Orvieto, a logistical health hub of primary importance for central Italy, capable of integrating the territory and other specialties, rehabilitation and secondary DEU level anchored there, within a single system of governance and overcoming of communication and operational obstacles constituted by the now obsolete experience slowing down the autonomy of the current Terni hospital.
A functional system integration therefore, for the creation of effectively usable and universalistic healthcare of a high level of interregional character. The signals instead seem to go in the opposite direction with Terni insisting on Terni, Narni on Narni and Orvieto Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, with a Region that wants to change everything in an octopus-like way so as not to change anything. Instead, we must, with transversal and shared courage, open ourselves to a new model of PSR, which we will be called to discuss in the next regional elections, the real ones for healthcare and its management, with the new mayors no longer beggars “impossible infinite at rhythm of the clock” to say it with Lorca, but careful vigilance beyond the small selfishness of the barnyard, for a system reform that affects everyone, regardless of sides and affiliations, to safeguard the health of us citizens of Umbria and Orvieto.
Stefano Moretti
Socialists and Liberals for Orvieto
