Calabria Region still defaulted, with respect to the obligations to ensure the essential levels of health care, mainly because of the cuts to territorial medicine. This is said by the data of the recently approved regional budget, and the now permanent red code – compared to basic services, prevention and supply of outpatient clinics – adds to the difficulties that are being encountered in containing the infection and in vaccination.
“After the reforms of health care federalism – he argues Marianna Mauro, Professor of Health Management at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro – it was decided to invest to overcome excessive hospitalization. In Calabria we have stable data, however, on the evidence that the resources recovered after the cut in beds they were not directed towards primary care: A little bit more than 251 million we spend every year for this sector and the forecast for 2019 says that precisely the shortcomings in territorial medicine make Calabria in default compared to lea ».
Little, in the totality of the items that for 65% absorb the regional budget, and the effects are seen in those indispensable services that, in fact, define clinics and family doctors as sentinel malmesse. «There is no doubt that this cascade also reverberates on the prevention medicine sostiene Aida Mauro, who teaches Hygiene at the University of Catanzaro – and this can be seen from the low numbers we find in those who, for example, go to the facilities to carry out cancer screening ». In short, it goes badly and risks getting worse, since assistance levels are going down also in the current year with the aggravating circumstance of a commissioner that after the Calabria decree – they warn from the university – cannot be as it has been up to now. “In recent years, attention has been paid to containing spending and rationalizing but there was no health policy»Concludes Mauro.
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