In the hospital wards without doctors “Eliminate spending constraints and more research”

And the insiders, in the Bergamo healthcare world, have quite clear ideas. The priorities: increase in personnel, reprogramming of territorial medicine, more support for research.

“If I think of the country, I hope that hospitals will be upgraded so that everyone can receive the best possible care near their home. I would like the funds to be used to avoid the high level of health mobility we have now – he illustrates

Maria Beatrice Stasi

, general director of Asst Papa Giovanni XXIII of Bergamo -. There is no need for heavy supplies, but a structural and planned revision of the hospital network and services. And there is an urgent need for a reorganization of territorial medicine: the organizational model and the rules of engagement of general practitioners must also be changed here in Lombardy; I am thinking of assistance guaranteed 24 hours a day, which allows more direct access to local medicine clinics, an enhancement of home medicine, equipping general practitioners with tools and equipment that allow remote controls and better connections with the hospital. This would ease access to the emergency room, avoiding the costs of hospitalizations and inappropriate examinations ». Maria Beatrice Stasi’s projects are also more local: «I hope for fewer constraints for staff: we have been penalized for too long because we are obliged to respect the 2014 spending limits for staff. But we need more doctors and nurses, we would like to consolidate professional skills, strengthen first aid, expand intensive care beds. And then I have a dream, for Pope John: we have all the pediatric specialties and we are at the forefront of neonatal care: I would like to characterize this hospital as a hospital for children. Also from a structural point of view: the spaces are there ».

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