(Finance) – “The serious and unacceptable lack of interest in healthcare has once again been confirmed by politics and by those in the government”. So Barbara Cittadini, President of Aiop, comments on the latest choices that emerge from the process of the Dl Aiuti quater.
“We ask the Government to act in a very short time: delays in healthcare turn into real emergencies, which seriously compromise public health, aggravating the drama of waiting lists, passive mobility and the renunciation of citizens’ care. Yes these are phenomena that are destined to worsen, due to the considerable energy price increases that all health facilities have been facing for a year now”.
There President Aiopthen, points out: “The reasons that led the Government to ask for the amendment to be transformed into the agenda of the amendment which eliminated the unfair limit of 0.8% envisaged only for private law hospitals working for the SSN, to the one-off contribution that the Regions can provide to healthcare facilities for high energy costs based on the resources already allocated by the Aiuti-ter decree”.
For Aiop it is a change that slows down the immediate execution of the correction, despite the fact that the amendment was presented by all the political forces of the majority and part of the opposition.
Cittadini adds: “The choice of the legislator is not at all reasonable because the elimination of the 0.8% ceiling does not involve any burden on public finances, nor does it alter the allotment quota of the National Health Fund of the Regions. It is, if anything, about recognize the Regions’ planning autonomyallowing both components of the NHS to be allocated, regardless of the legal nature, in a fair and proportionate manner to consumption, the resources allocated to deal with energy price increases”.
Aiop, from a survey conducted on over 200 structures throughout the national territory, highlights how between the years 2020 and 2022 the electricity costs of accredited health and social-health facilities increased by about 3 times and those of gas by 4.7 times: to be compromised, therefore, is the very sustainability of structures that guarantee 28% of all hospital services and services rendered to the population, absorbing 14% of public hospital expenditure.
“The risk of interrupting the services and treatments provided is now inevitable and if urgent measures are not taken, the private law component of the National Health Service will no longer be able to continue to protect the population’s right to health” highlights the President Aiop , who concludes: “A citizen who renounces being treated is the greatest defeat for a rule of law such as ours”