Meeting in Beata Giuliana organized by the promoters of Extraordinary appeal to the President of the Republic against the Program Agreement on the Busto-Gallarate hospital. An event different from the previous five, held in municipalities within the territory “covered” by Asst Valle Olona, if only for the fact that it takes place in the heart of the Bustese district where the new structure is planned.
Alberto Rossi And Vitaliano Caimi (Committee for the right to health of Varesotto, which is carrying out the appeal together with Medicina Democratica, the Maccacaro Health Center and 38 citizens), with Stefano Marchionna (Il Quadrifoglio association), had a certain amount of trouble explaining complicated technical steps and choices made, much less convincing the audience, around sixty people, who the hospital planned for Beata Giuliana must be opposed, favoring interventions on hospitals that already exist. In fact, the public already had a position, which emerged between interventions and questions.
Among the most frequently cited keywords: Hupaca reality not far from the future hospital, considered problematic due to its size and impact on the territory; Malpensa highway, A8 and Pedemontanainfrastructures which are in turn nearby, harmful to the environment, largely too busy to guarantee the necessary accessibility; Legnanoa city that has seen a historic hospital abandoned in favor of a new one, with a large area transformed into no man’s land; room, understood as “city council room”a place where, in Busto as in Gallarate, the debate on the topic of a single hospital would have been, to say the least, disappointing.
And the public debate, in respect of which the municipal councils of the two most involved cities voted (by majority) the exception, was one of the topics touched upon by the promoters of the appeal that most resonated with the audience, obviously generating negative reactions. Together with another. That of the “three scenarios”. Those who oppose the Busto/Gallarate hospital complain about the lack of due in-depth analysis of the “Docfap”, feasibility document of project alternatives. Which? «There was thesingle hospital with a cost of 440 million euros– Caimi and Rossi summarized, reasoning on the failure of the principle of reasonableness, also due to the elimination of a 6.5 hectare green area – the expansion and modernization of the Busto Arsizio hospital, 412 million, and the modernization of the two hospitals, 283 million».
Other themes: the lack of “anchoring” of the project a epidemiological investigations that can predict future health needs e building indexes of the Docfap do not correspond to those of the ADP.
And the appeal? It arrived at the Ministry of Health which, noting the centrality of the Vas – Strategic environmental assessment, “passed” it to that ofEnvironment. «We understand – the promoters stated – that, in turn, he asked the counterparties (municipalities, Ats, Asst, Region… Ed.) to present them with documentation. The counterparties could always request the transfer to Tar». Moved by the possible consequences on times and costs to be incurred, especially for those who lose. “At the moment it does not appear that this request has been made.”
Meanwhile, the promoters of the appeal they report delays in the process to arrive at the new hospital: «There is still no tender for the technical-economic feasibility project. The planning, it was intended, should have been completed by spring 2025, it is likely that it will go beyond that.”
