Tg Sanità, edition of 6 May 2024
We talk about: waiting lists, pediatric vaccinations, Fentanyl, mesothelioma, asbestos diseases, Johnson & Johnson case
WAITING LISTS. SCHILLACI: SHORT DECREE TO REDUCE THEM, THERE IS NO MONITORING
“We are working on a decree to combat waiting lists, we will present it in the next 15 days”. This was announced by the Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, speaking on 27 April at the programmatic conference of Fratelli d’Italia in Pescara. “We will try to reduce waiting lists, they are a long-standing Italian problem – continued Schillaci – this government really wants to tackle the problem and find solutions in a concrete way”. The minister then made it known that to date there is no waiting list monitoring system in Italy: “We want there to be one per region, with a central control”.
PEDIATRICAL VACCINATIONS. MINISTRY REPORT: COVERAGE IMPROVES IN 2022
“In 2022, there is a general improvement in the coverage of most of the vaccinations recommended in the early years of life, compared to the data recorded in the previous year. Coverages for polio and measles in the 2020 cohort are at 95.15% and 94.40%, respectively. The objective recommended by the World Health Organization to limit the circulation of these pathogens in the community and also obtain the so-called population immunity is 95%”. This is what emerges from the annual report on pediatric vaccinations of the Ministry of Health. “For the 2019 and 2018 cohorts, there was generally a recovery in polio and measles compared to last year, in particular by 1% point in the 2019 cohort and by approximately half a % point in the 2018 cohort”.
FENTANYL. HEROIN DOSE FOUND WITH ‘ZOMBIE DRUG’ IN ITALY. MINISTRY WRITE TO REGIONS
In a dose of heroin sold in Perugia, Fentanyl was found as a cutting substance, the synthetic opioid 80 times more powerful than morphine which, according to the Centers for Disease Control, caused over 100 thousand deaths from severe acute intoxication in 2022 alone in the United States. The alarm about the presence of the ‘zombie drug’ also in our country was raised in recent weeks after a random check carried out by the staff of a social cooperative on a dose of ‘street’ heroin sold to a user of the Serd of Terni. The Department for anti-drug policies took immediate action, while the Ministry of Health sent a note to the Health departments of all the Regions to urge them to inform people who use substances of the “very serious” health risks .
MESOTHELIOMA. ATTORNEY. FRANCO DI MARE: HE GOT SICK DUE TO RAI’S RESPONSIBILITY
“Rai was wrong to deny Franco Di Mare his service status with the list of places and duration of his career trips. Rai’s Code of Ethics would in fact have imposed a different type of behavior. But we will see this in the competent judicial bodies.” Thus the lawyer Ezio Bonanni, lawyer of the journalist Franco Di Mare and president of the National Asbestos Observatory (ONA), during an interview given to Dire. “Di Mare – the lawyer adds – contracted mesothelioma because there is a precise responsibility of Rai, which should have provided him with the requested data”. Among other things, lawyer Bonanni also states, “at least two other people who worked with him in that period, when he was a war correspondent, and who are showing symptoms of a respiratory disease” have written to the ONA.
DISEASE ASBESTOS. ONA: 7 THOUSAND DEATHS IN ITALY FROM ASBETOSIS OR MESOTHELIOMA IN 2023
“In 2023 alone in Italy there were around 7 thousand deaths attributable to pathologies such as asbestosis or mesothelioma which derive from asbestos and every year there are around 10 thousand new diagnoses of sick people.” The National Asbestos Association let Dire know. “Making a statistical estimate, therefore, we can assume that in our country every year there are approximately 9 thousand legal disputes linked to asbestos and asbestos diseases”. Furthermore, the ONA underlined, there is the issue of the underground economy: “Many people get sick without knowing they have been exposed to asbestos and often die without having received a real diagnosis”, conclude the experts.
OVARIAN CANCER CAUSED BY TALC. FROM JOHNSON&JOHNSON 6MLD TO CLOSE CASES
6.5 billion dollars. So he decided to put Johnson & Johnson, to compensate women who got asbestos-related ovarian cancer after using some of its products. In particular, the company is accused of using asbestos for the production of talc, its flagship product. Despite the confirmed cases, Johnson & Johnson has always rejected accusations that his products are harmful. Already in 2021, however, the Supreme Court had condemned the company to compensate its customers with approximately two billion dollars. Now, the American pharmaceutical giant has decided to close the matter by paying 6.475 billion dollars over 25 years, to put an end to civil lawsuits.