The Asyoli club in Corso Garibaldi hosted the public meeting promoted by the “RinnoviAmo Forlì” list on Wednesday entitled “Territorial assistance: the role of the Municipality for the improvement of services”. “The topic of healthcare, in fact, is particularly important heart to the Forlì community and aroused particular interest among the participants, including managers and health and social workers, trade union leaders, representatives of voluntary associations and citizens”, they explain from the civic list. The proceedings were opened by Michele Fiumi, coordinator and spokesperson of RinnoviAmo Forlì, followed by Fosco Foglietta, former general director of the local health authority and collaborator of RinnoviAmo Forlì, who addressed the issue of healthcare in Emilia-Romagna, highlighting “quality and efficiency in the light of Agenas and Ministry of Health data, thereby responding objectively indisputable to the mystifications expressed a few months ago by the deputy Alice Buonguerrieri on the occasion of a conference of the Brothers of Italy”.
Speakers followed were Silvia Mambelli, former director of Health Professions of the Romagna Ausl and candidate councilor on the RinnoviAmo Forlì list, Giuliana Battistini, former social worker and Andrea Avanzolini, hospital surgeon and candidate councilor of RinnoviAmo Forlì. Mambelli addressed the issue of access to healthcare services, focusing on the program for improving the quality of care presented in the electoral list proposal. In particular, “the need for close institutional interaction between the Municipality and the socio-health district was underlined, both of which are called upon to play a responsible role in improving socio-health services in the area and in dealing with the significant increase in citizens’ needs, with particular reference to elderly people and those with chronic-degenerative pathologies. Tangible examples of what has been stated are certainly found in the creation of the Community House, which has been awaited for years, in the strengthening of home care, in the implementation of telemedicine as well as in the development of healthcare processes. socio-health integration”. Battistini addressed the topic of municipal social services, highlighting “lights and shadows with particular reference to the figure of the neighborhood social-health worker and the social worker and underlining the need for their integration with home health care professionals” .
Avanzolini placed the theme of improving the quality of life of fragile people at the center of his speech, “people affected by limitations resulting from both psycho-physical and social causes. The program list includes multiple proposals aimed at generating a network of aid and support that counteract the negative effects of this fragility. Some examples are represented by digital literacy and implementation, co-housing, assisted mobility, greater accessibility to health, social and health services, smart cities, greater safety, family volunteering. and proximity. All these aspects, however multifaceted and transversal, have in common the search for a global response to fragility and disability”. At the end of the speeches, a debate followed at the end of which the mayoral candidate of the centre-left coalition Graziano Rinaldini, present for the entire duration of the event, concluded the proceedings by thanking the list “for their commitment”.
