Three years for a medical examination on the back: the TV case that embarrasses the “Rizzoli” of Bologna
The case 'revealed' yesterday evening by the Mediaset programme 'Fuori dal coro': "The director should resign"
BOLOGNA – The case ‘revealed’ yesterday evening by the Mediaset program “Fuori dal coro”, that of a lady from Modenawho has been waiting for three years and who receives an appointment for back surgeryjust as the TV crew knocks on the doors of the Rizzoli hospital, unleashes the center-right in the Region, in the midst of the election campaign for Viale Aldo Moro.
The target is the general director of the IOR Anselmo Campagna, followed in vain by Mario Giordano’s correspondent in the report aired yesterday evening.
Simone Pelloni, now in the civic list of Elena Ugolini, considers “the immediate resignation of the general director Campagna, appointed directly by the former president Stefano Bonaccini, necessary, as this episode calls into question the credibility and correctness of the management of the Rizzoli Hospital”.
It is “unacceptable – says the former Lega – that such a delicate operation is set only following media pressure, ignoring the need for fair and transparent management of waiting lists that are too often closed. Citizens’ health cannot be treated in this way”. Fratelli d’Italia also takes a hard line.
“We are in total disarray, if we have to call TV and newspapers to get an appointment, which is then set within a few days”, says another regional councilor, Luca Cuoghi.
“What does the regional health councillor think? How do you think he can solve the problems he himself has created in the next legislature, he who has chosen as his electoral slogan ‘health first’? Just like what happened to the lady in the service, I fear that these answers will not arrive for the next few years”.
The outgoing group leader of Fdi in the Region Marta Evangelisti also calls for clarity.
“A three-year wait for back surgery, in a Region that prides itself on being an example of good health – says Evangelisti – is intolerable and only shows how protecting the health of citizens has been downgraded by the Region to a secondary item that can be sacrificed to senseless budgets and reorganizations”. On the subject of waiting lists, but without referring to the Rizzoli case, Lega’s Maura Catellani also intervenes.
“Booking a health service in Emilia-Romagna is still a feat. And as time passes, the untreated patient gets worse”, says Catellani, who underlines how “the alarm raised by the unions and the recent intervention of the NAS at the Modena ASL highlight how regional health care is now collapsing”. On the center-left front, however, Dem Marcella Zappaterra focuses on the cuts made by the Government.
“From October 21st in Emilia-Romagna, the immunization campaign with monoclonal antibodies nirsevimab for children against respiratory syncytial virus, the main cause of bronchiolitis in childhood, has started”, is the example given.
“A measure for which we as a PD group have worked in recent months. For us, this service should be guaranteed throughout Italy because children’s health is a collective heritage. The Government had promised it and then backtracked a few hours after an initial announcement and there are many Regions that – unlike ours – cannot provide the administration. Almost all those in southern Italy”.