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The Regional Council, at the proposal of the Health Counselor, Luigi Genesio Icardi, decided on the 90-day extension of therapeutic plans for medicines and prescriptions for complementary care, which expires in May. A measure had already been taken on March 13. extension for three months of the validity of therapeutic drug plans and comprehensive care prescriptions, after the COVID-19 emergency, whose objective was to avoid resorting to specialized visits if not motivated by absolute urgency.
“The reason for the provision – Councilor Icardi observes – is to avoid, on the basis of national and regional indications that are reflected in the subsequent decrees of the President of the Council of Ministers and the ordinances of the President of the Regional Council, all situations of possible gathering and overcrowding of people in connection with the Coronavirus emergency. ”
Today, according to Aifa indications, an additional 3-month extension of the validity of all web-based or paper-based drug treatment plans (eg oral antidiabetic drugs) has been decided. the month. You can, without prejudice to any specific indication contrary to that indicated by the specialist doctor. The resolution extends, under the same conditions as the resolution of March 13, the validity of prescriptions for supplementary assistance (for example, material for stomata or catheterized subjects, or those related to devices for the treatment of diabetes), which expire in May. The provision establishes that, in the event that the patient presents a worsening of the underlying disease or an intolerance to the treatment or, in any case, a significant variation in the clinical picture, the extension of the validity of the therapeutic plan for drugs or the prescription for complementary assistance cannot be automatic: in this case, the referral specialist should be contacted, through the prescription of outpatient services of class U and B, which continue to be carried out in accordance with the regional provisions provided to the organizations of medical care for the management of outpatients in the hospital field during the epidemiological emergency COVID-19. The resolution also foresees the extension of the application of simplified authorization procedures for complementary and prosthetic assistance, already foreseen in the resolution of March 13, against the persistence of limitations in the movement of people and, in particular, to carry out consultations. external related to the maintenance of the state of epidemiological emergency: it is possible to send by email both prescriptions and authorizations, avoiding direct access.
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