Sit-in by the centre-left regional councilors in front of the emergency room of the Pescara hospital to denounce the critical issues affecting Abruzzo’s healthcare system, after the approval of the regional healthcare deficit recovery plan during the last regional council
«As the Pact for Abruzzo we were called to decide on a deficit in the regional health service», he declared Luciano D’Amico, regional councilor of Pact for Abruzzo. «Until March they told us that ours was a healthcare system of excellence and today instead we discover that by adding the accounts of the four local health authorities we find ourselves with a deficit of 128 million euros by 2023 and this brings the cost of healthcare in Abruzzo to a total value which is close to 2 billion and 800 million euros.»
For the opposition in the Regional Council, what is also alarming is the lack of quality of services with endless waiting lists and often even without a timetable and the increase in passive mobility which discourage Abruzzo residents in need of care, despite huge healthcare spending and a deficit significant which the regional health councilor Nicoletta Verì defined as structural.
«We spend a lot and badly and above all we offer emergency financial coverage for the deficit which is difficult to repeat in the coming years with the deficit which however will be repeated and after having scraped the barrel this year, still difficult to cover», added D’Amico, illustrating the proposals put forward by the centre-left. «Our proposal is that of a general reorganization of the regional health system. We would have expected hypotheses in this sense from the Region. We ask ourselves, for example: is it still convenient to have four local health authorities? Should hospital companies do them, not do them? Then on the individual hospital facilities we are not proposing linear cuts as done by the majority to cover the deficit, but rather to reorganize a system that consumes more or less as much as those in Lombardy, Emilia and Tuscany, but with decidedly lower quality services offered to the citizens. We are ready to confront each other and discuss our proposals, to avoid a new health commissioner.»
