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All the excuses in the series are good … It happens that a private hospital decides to offer a home service, for a fee. And if it does, it is because it believes there is a demand, a void that can be filled in the logic of the free market. We repeat: it is a service that is provided autonomously and freely in solvency and that does not detract from the national health system. The impression is that those who lash out at the Covid home visiting service organized by San Raffaele only want to attack the government of the Lombardy region for the umpteenth time. As a pretext, also because, in any case, a private service in addition to the public one helps to streamline lists, expectations, numbers of patients that require a visit, a tampon, a consultation and that by doing it at home they leave free places to those who have more need.
“The San Raffaele hospital participates in the SNS together with the other 13 accredited private structures, but it can also provide services on a solvency basis – explains the Councilor for Social Welfare Giulio Gallera -. It is certainly not the first hospital to organize exams or visits privately for a fee, so there are private labs that do swabs at home. The regional health system offers free tampons and free home visits to Covid patients in isolation through the Usca, but since we are in a free country, everyone has the opportunity to choose.
What is it about? A diagnosis and home health care service for Covid positive patients using Telemedicine. The service guarantees full support to subjects in compulsory home isolation through video visits (90 euros) and diagnostic tests (450 euros) to be performed after the video visit to their home, if necessary. “The telemedicine service of the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital was implemented long before the health emergency and was created with the aim of bringing the hospital closer to the homes of patients to maintain continuity of care and give the opportunity to those who cannot move and ask for a consultation with the hospital specialists ”, they explain from Grupo San Donato. “Born as a service initially dedicated to solvency activities, today telemedicine is being tested in terms of integration with the National Health Service.”
To take the question to the Region is M5S Lombardia, with Luigi Piccirillo, member of the Health Commission who signs an urgent question. “Do not do business in Covid. The San Raffaele initiative highlights the pathological level reached by the regional health offer. I must reverse the course.” Words that know a lot about pretext and have little to do with the Lombard health system. Worse still, the Party Democrat who raises it on the social question: “From the disastrous policies of this board – and from the previous ones – a deep gap arises in the Lombard health system, between those who can afford the necessary treatments and those who are forced to give it up” .
