Lamezia Terme – “The lack of personnel is the most serious problem encountered in public health; there are many operators who cease their work and retire and few, if not completely absent, are hired “. Anna Caruso, former municipal councilor of Lamezia, intervenes on the issue who, underlines how “departments and services that today do everything possible to cover shifts and welcome the sick – trying as far as possible to maintain an adequate level of assistance – clash with wicked choices of closing or weakening clinics and / or structures, without worrying about “replacing” or “plugging in” the emergencies that the current situation proposes. As regards the Lametine situation, the serious discrepancy in the distribution of specialist outpatient hours that the territory undergoes compared to those, “more fortunate”, of Catanzaro and Soverato had already been denounced. Remember how the services (straighter outpatient outpatient services of Cardiology, from 24 hours a week of outpatient activity have passed to zero; the orthopedics clinic, which until a few years ago had three doctors, for a load of 50 hours per week, has increased to six hours with only one doctor; the outpatient dermatology service, which until a few years ago was a point of reference for many patients (even outside the province) is now completely closed “.
And he focuses on sports medicine: “as if this were not enough, today we are witnessing for the umpteenth time another mockery that arouses amazement and concern for the disappearance of the Sports Medicine clinic. With the transfer of the only Medical Director, contracted to another company, in Lamezia the Sport Medicine service has been completely closed, which in these long years has been a flagship of the healthcare company and which provides an important service of preventive medicine. The clinic has always been at the service of the sports clubs of the whole area as well as of that large sports population made up above all of very young mini athletes who are entering sports and, for their preventive safety, they are not only obligatory, required by law, but the need for this service that the ASP has not guaranteed to the territory for a few months. In a period like this in which Sport as well as other activities of everyday life are restarting, in Lamezia it was decided that all sportsmen who need the “famous” certificate for competitive and non-competitive activities, are forced to move from Lamezia to Catanzaro with the impossibility of obtaining it quickly “.
For Caruso: “We cannot and must not remain helpless in the face of yet another abuse and it is hoped that there will be the willingness and willingness of the various subjects involved to find those conditions that allow to guarantee continuity in the opening of the Sports Medicine clinic. The urgency of important public investments in support of the Lametine health system is palpable by implementing the hospital system starting from an important recruitment plan in public health ”.