The odyssey of a child from Salerno: «The visit is in 200 days»

Until 200 days to get a first date in the Child neuropsychiatry. The ASL waiting lists are endless Salernotoo much for the children who need to access these services, disheartening for those families who anxiously and fearfully await an evaluation.

With the risk, therefore, that too much time passes from the symptoms to the therapeutic intervention, which is precious for early diagnoses and timely interventions, which often allow conventional treatments to be started before the problem worsens. But for the first useful dates for a visit to the Child Neuropsychiatry Department of Mental Health you have to wait until mid-December. Exactly the 12th day of the last month of the year: this is the first useful day given to a couple from Salerno who in recent days called the local health authority’s Cup to book the visit. «This is a problem that also affects other districts and other sectors. – has explained Lorenzo Latellaregional secretary of Cittadinanzattiva Campania -. We are in a moment of profound healthcare crisis, there is not a sector that somehow works. There are few solutions at the moment. As well as doctors for whom it is physiologically impossible to do more than a certain number of visits. We should certainly act differently. For example, you could find external agreements, make temporary hires to dispose of the lists, schedule visits cyclically».