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Dearest director,
I am writing to report what happened to my elderly parents, residing in Lombardy and to be precise in the beautiful Brianza regarding the flu vaccination.
In October, they were advised by their primary care physician that he would soon be getting the vaccine. They require home administration due to poor health conditions. After days no one does not show up anymore. We are informed and we discover that our doctor, poor fellow, despite having requested in time the doses of vaccine necessary for his patients, as many as 400 doses, received only 40. So he had to make a selection of the 40 patients most at risk on his 400 and rightly give them priority and therefore the first doses.
But where did the other 360 doses go? Was it possible that in the scandalous management of the Lombardy Region on the flu vaccines issue it was possible to receive only a piece of the order made to those of competence by the general practitioner respecting all the trappings of the case?
Well in our hearts we thought it was a generalized disaster that everyone in the region was without the vaccine. But shortly after we discover that the private clinic in the city had vaccines and that by going to them for the price of 60 euros you could get vaccinated. For home delivery the price was higher. It goes without saying that anger has risen inside us and what a profound discouragement in the face of this injustice in the face of those who are weak and that the State says in words to protect but then in fact it is not.
We have seen first hand what is the drainage of resources for public health in favor of the private one. Why did my GP only receive 40 vaccines out of the 400 required and the private individual had vaccines at will?
The months pass and by now we think that this blessed vaccine is totally lost when my parents receive the call from the doctor on December 30th. The vaccine has arrived for them too and will spend the morning doing it. After a first exultation I hear a friend who is also a patient of the same doctor and is queuing outside the clinic to get the vaccine. Confronting each other we discover that our poor general practitioner has received the missing vaccines and has to administer them all in a few days, three if not two, in short, by the end of the year. A madness that causes queues of the elderly outside the clinic on the street to freeze with the snow in full pandemic. All because of a crazy management that gives resources first to the private sector and to the public propina them with a dropper and close to the expiration date. All this endangering the lives of patients and without any respect for the work of their doctors.
I hope you can publish this letter of mine which certainly represents the experience of many citizens in these terrible months.
A greeting
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