RAGUSA – Francesco Tanasi, Jurist and National Secretary of Codacons, had already announced it in recent weeks, the legal Tsunami against medical malpractice and waiting lists in public healthcare with the mega opening of 350 “Consumer Health Info Points” on the island. Tanasi explained that the problem of excessive waits to carry out specialist visits and analyzes despite the promises in Sicily had not been resolved and the current serious crisis situation was pushing an increasingly large segment of citizens to turn to private healthcare, paying the costs out of their own pockets. performance. Now the lawyer Bruno Messina, Regional Vice President of Codacons, announces that he has, with a complaint, brought the report of the program “Fuori dal Coro” by Mario Giordano on Rete 4 on the table of the Prosecutor of the Republic of Ragusa and the Court of Auditors.
“The Codacons – explains the lawyer. Messina – refers to the service broadcast a few days ago which is one of those that are difficult to forget, because it once again shows the inconsistencies of Sicily, and in particular of its healthcare sector. In fact, if you can’t get treatment due to a lack of resources it’s one thing, but if they exist and aren’t used it’s another thing. And when the lack of use is connected to bureaucratic slowness, we become more indignant, as we understand well that the inertia of the Public Administration causes serious damage to the health of Sicilians.
On the other hand – continues the lawyer. Messina – the television program reported that in a hospital, the Maggiore in Modica, there are two CT scans which until recently were unusable by patients. Furthermore, the investigation revealed that two linear accelerators in the Radiotherapy department at the Paternò-Arezzo Hospital in Ragusa, purchased for the treatment of cancer patients, appear to be destined to remain packaged due to the inadequacy of the premises intended to house them”. According to the lawyer Bruno Messina, the judiciary must investigate, identifying those responsible, who have forced many sick people to seek paid treatment. “In the past – states Bruno Messina – to combat the inefficiencies of the healthcare system we asked the Court of Auditors to evaluate how the funds intended for Sicilian healthcare were spent, now we ask the accounting judiciary to evaluate whether the acquisition of assets by the Asp justify such long times for the use of the equipment and we ask the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Ragusa to open an investigation into the possible cases of interruption of public service and omissions of official acts” – concludes the Messina Regional Vice President.
