The Miulli hospital in Acquaviva delle Fonti has announced “the interruption of healthcare services to residents of Basilicata (in the absence of the “Border Agreements” stipulation) starting from 01/07/2024″. From the document released by the Apulian hospital, it can be seen that “the suspension concerns: scheduled hospitalizations; Day surgery; Day hospital; Day Service and Outpatient”.
“It is also established – it is written in the document – the interruption of bookings for services, (including Oncology and Radiotherapy visits) instrumental diagnostic tests (CT scan, MRI, Endoscopies, etc.) until 12/31/2024. It will only be possible to carry out follow-up/check-up visits, in order to avoid interruptions in the therapeutic process.
The possibility of paid first visits is foreseen: “In consideration of the health demand of users, in particular from Basilicata, in order to offer the possibility of treatment at our hospital, the specialist “first visits” are available exclusively for the possibility of accessing institutional clinics with remuneration paid by the user equal to a cost of 60 euros, referable to the amount of the service and the ticket”.
The comment by Pasquale Doria (Matera Civica):
The Miulli Hospital in Acquaviva closes its doors to Basilicata, with many regards to the constitutional right to health. The Matera City Council will not be wrong in making its voice heard firmly and decisively, it will do equally well not to remain indifferent to the gravity of a document concerning the health of our communities which has been circulating for the past few hours, especially in the world of Lucanian medicine.
In summary, the Miulli Hospital announces the “interruption of healthcare services to residents of Basilicata (in the absence of the “Border Agreements” stipulation) starting from next July 1st”. Specifically, the suspension concerns: scheduled hospitalizations, day surgery, day hospitals, day services and outpatient clinics. The document, appropriately also distributed through the Simg (Italian Society of General Medicine) continues by specifying that the interruption of bookings for services (including oncology and radiotherapy visits) and instrumental diagnostic tests (CT scan, MRI, endoscopies, etc.) is also ordered. ) until December 31st of the current year, 2024. It will only be possible to carry out follow-up/check-up visits, in order to avoid interruptions in the therapeutic process.
The possibility of paid first visits is foreseen: “In consideration of the health demand of users, in particular from Basilicata – continues the document – in order to offer the possibility of treatment at our hospital, we are available exclusively for first visits only specialists the possibility of accessing institutional clinics with remuneration paid by the user equal to a cost of 60 euros, referable to the amount of the service and the ticket.”
Our Constitution attributes to the Republic the protection of health as a fundamental right of the individual and interest of the community. But it is not the first case of the right to health denied, privatised, commodified. A regression that the Lucanian communities are experiencing in a crescendo whose involutional outcomes especially affect the less well-off social groups. They are progressively expelled from the national health service introduced in 1978 with the aim of guaranteeing universal access to health services for the entire population. If we consider that only adequate forms of insurance will be able to allow treatment without who knows what economic worries, it is all too clear how much the reduction in beds in public hospitals and healthcare personnel is costing us in terms of increasingly less sustainable sacrifices.
The damage of wrong choices is already proving evident, but it is not certain that it cannot get even worse with the differentiated autonomy that looms in the absence of any guarantee on the essential levels of performance (Lep), in short we are now close to cancellation as regards the individual and collective social rights of our already tried communities, bitterly channeled onto a path to be absolutely avoided if this ends up worsening the country’s territorial disparities to the detriment of the weakest realities.
