Lamezia Terme – “We report and denounce one of the many cases that have been occurring for too long in the Lamezia Terme area. We met a sixty-year-old at the Lamezia Terme Bus Terminal who long ago had a cerebral stroke, with various permanent consequences on his He was asking whether or not there were buses to Soverato, as he had to go to the Ionian center to undergo an echocardiogram. In the absence of the bus he told us that he will have to go there by train. This gentleman also added that for an electrocardiogram, a few days ago he was forced to go to Catanzaro Lido.
The same “patient” also said that for a carotid Doppler ultrasound he will have to reach Chiaravalle. Therefore, for three investigations of Territorial Medicine, he was asked to move from Lamezia Terme to three other different centers: Catanzaro Lido, Soverato and Chiaravalle. All this because in Lamezia Terme these services are not possible due to atavistic organic shortages of personnel “is what is stated in a note by the lawyers Giancarlo Nicotera and Anna Caruso, former Municipal Councilors of Lamezia Terme.
“But who administers Healthcare and Territorial Medicine in our city – they continue – realize all this? They realize that thousands of patients, weak and fragile, of Lamezia Terme and the Lametino, have to face a thousand journeys among many inconveniences every day even only for periodic checks that are very important for their health? What kind of health is this that does not protect the chronically ill and those who do not have the means to move to distant centers? All this happens despite the fact that in Lamezia Terme there is a cutting-edge Cardiology with staff doctor and paramedic of excellence, but reduced to a flicker. When will Lamezia Terme return to normal? When will the right and fundamental human endowments be guaranteed? Who was put there to really protect patients and everyone’s Right to Health, when will it put an end to all this? Are these the results produced by years of Commissariation? All this is really absurd and unbearable, it produces inconvenience and unnecessary costs, Above all, he puts the health of many people at serious risk who, unable to wander around the province to carry out vital tests, often give up “.