Harsh statement by Gallarate Municipality Objectivethe civic reality that promoted the petition with 13,000 signatures on the city hospital. The board releases it after the rejection, in the Regional Council, of a signature motion Luca Ferrazzi, Samuele Astuti and Giuseppe Licata in which he was asked about put down on paper the commitment to maintaining significant healthcare functions in the areas currently occupied by the hospitals of Busto and Gallarateeven once the new structure in Beata Giuliana has been built.
Reassurances on the maintenance of a health connotation for the areas have been expressed on several occasions, but without putting the commitment in writing. The regional councilor is especially targeted Emanuele Monti, of the League. The essence of his speech: the project for the new hospital is of great value for the territory and the motion is instrumental, except in the part in which agreements are promoted with universities to bring specialists to work in Asst Valle Olona (HERE is the article on voting in the Region). From political initiative, impossible to vote on for a good part of the Regional Council, despite somewhat shared intentions, he instead spoke the Welfare councilor Guido Bertolaso (video at the bottom of the article HERE).
Among observations on the decline in consensus of the League in Gallarate and stored to the regional councillors Gallera and ZocchiOCG returns to his petition in defense of existing hospitals, starting with the one in Gallarate, presented to the Regional Health Commission and then returned to obscurity: «The over 13 thousand signatories have been waiting for a response from the Lombardy Region for 264 days, compared to the 60 foreseen by the regulation.». Below is the full press release.
Today it has been 264 days, compared to the 60 foreseen by the regional regulation, that the over 13 thousand signatories of the petition for the maintenance of the Gallarate Hospital have been waiting for a response from the Lombardy Region.
While we wait, we want to express our sincere thanks to the minority councilors Ferrazzi (first signatory), Licata and Astuti and to the majority councilor Gallizzi, for having asked the Council to express with a clear vote which health services it intends to leave in Gallarate.
The response, not at all obvious after the bombastic proclamations, was bitterly clear and firm: once Gallarate abandons its hospital there will be nothing left. Finished. Everything closed except the Boito pavilion. Finally, the political majority that governs the region has removed its mask, confirming that, despite the usual chatter, it does not want to underwrite in any way that “significant territorial functions” should be located in the spaces of what will be the former S.Antonio Abate. Nothing more.
The people of Gallararate and the inhabitants of neighboring municipalities will not be able to access even the most basic basic services in the city area. Don’t forget councilor Monti of the League, who defined our initiative as “instrumental”, that in Gallarate and not only his party led by the mayor and provincial secretary Cassani is in constant decline in consensus also due to the intransigent position on the closure of the hospital.
On the other hand, it seems legitimate to us to suspect that the councilor of FI Gallera has not read the text well or perhaps has not understood it: he forgets that it is the number of citizens that proportionally determines the number of hospitals and not the opposite, Milan in fact has 31! Review the health history of the lower Varese area under councilor Gallera where two hospitals have coexisted for over a century and an intercontinental airport for several years. We can only invite councilor Zocchi of FdI to listen better to the words of one of his party colleagues who has a different opinion on the same topic, the Honorable Mantovani who has clearly expressed himself in recent days.
Soon the Gallarate City Council will also vote on a text similar to the one discussed yesterday in the region, thanks to the motion filed over a month ago by councilor Gnocchi of Objective Comune Gallarate. Thus, even in the city it will be clear to the citizens who we will have to thank for the upcoming cancellation of every Gallarate health facility.
OCG Board of Directors – Celeste Parachini, Asnaghi Betty, Stanzione Marcello, Matta Stefano, Zanoni Gabriele, Maffiolini Henry, Morazzoni Gianmarco
