Health, transport, work and environment in BES data: Calà (CGIL) “Liguria is still too behind”

“The system of services to citizens in Liguria has important gaps” is how Maurizio Calà, General Secretary of Cgil Liguria, comments on the data made public in the BES Report (Equitable and sustainable well-being composed of Istat and Cnel data) “The data highlights the Ligurian backwardness in some sectors such as local public transport, waste and environment, health and work and I believe they should question local politics and administrators”.

According to the Report, local public transport in Liguria records the worst data compared to the other regions of the North West and the country system in terms of available seats in relation to kilometers (4,270 compared to 7,694 in the NO and 4,696 in Italy); the data indicates a strong problem of infrastructure, but also of the provision of vehicles which do not guarantee Ligurians the full right to mobility.

Staying with services, the second negative data concerns the separate collection of municipal solid waste, where Liguria is fourth to last at a national level with a percentage of 40.6 percent compared to 68.1 in the north west and 60.2 in the Italian system . On the environmental issue, the BES also notes alarming critical issues with respect to the population exposed to the risk of floods (Liguria with 17.4 percent stands out compared to the north west with 5.9 and the Italian system with 11.5), and landslides (Liguria 5.9 percent, North West 1.5, Italian system 2.2). Staying with environmental issues, another negative element is that of the production of electricity from renewable sources which relegates Liguria to last position and far behind in comparison with the north west and the rest of the country (7.0 Ligurian data, 25.1 NO data, 30.7 given Italy) “Instead of the regasification terminal looking to the past, it would be much more useful to think about how to implement the production of renewable energy – comments Calà who concludes – The reality that emerges denotes a lack of vision and the risk of Liguria being marginalized in the within the national panorama with the aggravating circumstance of cuts to resources by the Government”.

With respect to work and healthcare, the BES confirms, with all due respect to the regional offices, our data: Liguria stands out for low work intensity (11.6 percent, compared to NO with 5.2 and Italy 9.8), therefore few days worked and consequent low incomes and with the lowest impact on transformations from precarious to stable work (19.2 percent compared to 26.9 in NO and 22.4 in Italy). The difficulties in healthcare are well known and are highlighted, for example, in the renunciation of health services by Ligurians: 7.8 percent of Ligurians renounce treatment compared to 7.5 of those living in the North West regions and 7.6 of the country system.