Il Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, is he invisible? Truly the whole healthcare problem seems to have disappeared into some faded page of the government's notes.
It seemed that, once the pandemic was over, projects and money would have to arrive to reinvigorate the national health system. None of this. Investments are decreasing, a lot is being pushed and invested in the private sector, staff is not being hired and the already few doctors and nurses are being forced to flee abroad or into the private sector.
Our national health system, implemented in 1978, was truly an example of great democracy. Over the years it has been constantly depleted but has held up quite well and provided us with the necessary care. At a certain point the collapse, about whose reasons I have often written, but today it seems that there is no desire to address the problem in the sense of renewing, reinvigorating, nourishing the public, everyone's right to health, without distinction of economic class or geographical area.
Why is all this happening when it seemed there were money to be allocated primarily to healthcare?
Regarding a minister who does not speak and does not appear, I have my own explanation. I have never believed that having a doctor at the Ministry of Health is a good thing. It is a ministry where we need those who know how to make social and health policy, with medical consultants.
The democratic revolution suggested by Professor Garattini it is really urgent.
°°°The author is a sports doctor from Val Pusteria
