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“I want to read the papers with my eyes and thus have a precise idea of the state of things,” former prefect Guido Longo likes to repeat at this time to those who ask him what will be the priorities of his mandate. Today the new Calabrian health commissioner will arrive in Catanzaro to begin the task entrusted to him by the Conte government.
Parallel to the reconnaissance work on numbers and tables, Longo will begin a reconnaissance tour, everywhere, between Calabrian health facilities, including the 18 hospitals currently closed. “This is the best way – he announces when he is about to set foot in Calabria after his experiences in Reggio and Vibo – to understand what and where to intervene.” The new commissioner will no doubt have to initiate a remediation and elimination of illegal interests gravitating around the planet of health. Not to mention the pressure, a constant in almost 11 years as commissioner, coming from private health entrepreneurs.
A recent report, produced by the Court of Auditors, mercilessly photographs the state of health of Calabrian healthcare. The document reveals a puzzling fact: it is since 2014 that a consolidated budget for the health service in Calabria has not been drawn up. According to the accounting magistrates, Calabria’s healthcare debts at the end of 2019 amounted to at least billion 51 million: 539 euros for each citizen resident, including babies. A disaster, in short.
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