TRENTO. Forward like a bulldozer, despite the chorus of criticisms of the categories (from doctors to nurses, to trade unions), and the “friendly fire” of the center-right parties (Fratelli d’Itlia and Forza Italia have released themselves by counting against the commission). The Northern League provincial council also approves the Trentino health care reform.
A press release from the Province explains it as follows: “The Trentino healthcare model has been redefined, based on the restoration and strengthening of health districts to bring services closer to the citizen and ensure homogeneity of care through a single hospital network, with a view to a” polycentric hospital “. The reorganization proposed by the council for the provincial health services company takes a decisive step. The resolution, proposed by the councilor for health, was definitively approved by the executive, at the end of a process that saw the preliminary adoption and presentation as well as to the IV Board Commission (negative vote, ed), to the stakeholders of the territory (all against, ed), such as the Health Council, trade unions, the Health Council and the Council of local autonomies.
The provision definitively overcomes the experimental organizational model introduced for Apss in 2016, to concretely implement the indications contained in the legislative program and the provincial development program. Documents with which the Administration intended to focus and enhance the proximity to the user in the provision of local and hospital services.
There are numerous cornerstones, interventions and strategies through which the reorganization is implemented. The aim is to respond to the critical issues highlighted by the pandemic and not only by the latter, as well as to enhance the strengths of the Trentino system. Central points of the reform are the restoration and strengthening of health districts which, through the establishment of local professional networks, the Departments and the contribution of medical professionals and other health professions, including family nurses, will guarantee proximity to care and an integrated approach to taking charge of the patient.
Another strong point of the reorganization is the strengthening of the Prevention Department so that all moments of contact with people become opportunities to promote health, as well as the organization of the School of Medicine and Surgery of Trento in relation to the launch in 2020. of the inter-university master’s degree course in medicine and surgery at the University of Trento.
In addition, each hospital will be characterized as a provincial reference hospital for some paths through the definition of a “structure project”, with a view to complementarity and subsidiarity of the structures in compliance with local needs, the different functions and mandates of each hospital unit as well as than the needs dictated by seasonality “.
So far the official statement. Like an icebreaker ship, the reform of the Healthcare Company goes on, regardless of the many opposing positions ranging from the eight orders of the health professions to the workers’ unions, from the Health Council to the working groups, up to the Fourth Commission, the place deputy for discussion within the provincial council.
The resolution that will change the health of Trentino was rejected by a very large majority by the council commission: the only favorable vote was the Northern League’s Mara Dalzocchio.
This is a delicate and important step, both for the involvement of practically all citizens, the ultimate users of public health, and for the historical moment that sees new financial resources arriving, provided, however, that precise guidelines are observed, for now, says the Consult, absent in the document.
For this reason, even if we go on, the criticisms are many. “Health care in Trentino – underlines Lucia Coppola, Green Europe – is going through a serious crisis”. And, after analyzing the causes and effects, from the shortage of personnel to the increase in tumors, from the flight of doctors to patients who are treated elsewhere, he presented a question, asking, among other things: “Between a concert and the other, what kind of health care for the future of Trentino? ».
Meanwhile Patt, Pd and Futura (Demagri, Zeni and Zanella), distance themselves from this reform “carried out without comparison”, “in the absence of an evaluation of the organization in progress” and “in spite of the evaluations of the representatives of the Provincial Council “.
Even Ugo Rossi, from Trentino in Action, takes it out on the “pseudo reform of the League”, “A mixture of slogans and unattainable things”.
It should be noted that the stomach ache also comes from the same majority: on the sidelines of the document signed by the three commissioners in quota Fratelli d’Italia (Ambrosi, Rossato and Cia) which asks to suspend the process of the resolution, also Forza Italia, through the Provincial Commissioner Ettore Zampiccoli believes that “a clash over health care and an opposition, which leaves no room for dialogue, is not productive. Healthcare is neither right nor left but concerns the citizens ». And he resumes: “If eight professional associations have expressed their reservations, it means that something is wrong”. “It is an absurd situation, which does not respect the citizens,” adds the CIA.