The Nobel Prize in Physics Giorgio Parisi speaks of children. Of children and tax aid to mum and dad to fill the increasingly empty cradles. And he speaks of the precariousness of contracts that do not help young couples to start a family. Enchant the audience with the simplicity of the words. He himself, a physicist who a few days ago was awarded for his “Research on complex systems” explains how “Italy is not a country for young people”. It does so by opening the conference entitled “Medical and social aspects of the pediatric age in Italy”, underway today in Rome and promoted by the Accademia dei Lincei, Sapienza University of Rome and the Italian Society of Pediatrics.
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“Fiscal aid is needed to counter the problem of the decline in births in Italy – says Parisi -” Italy is in a demographic trap: the number of births is increasingly low, we must also intervene through fiscal aid “. “We have the impression that our National Health System is more than satisfactory – he explains – but it has been seen, both before and during the Covid-19 epidemic, that there are lights and shadows. The malfunctioning pockets, for example, concern hospitals with fewer than 500 births a year, which put children’s health at risk. Healthcare restructuring must start with the restructuring of small structures, which could become centers of first contact with the territory. They should not be closed, but the births must take place in equipped structures “. Because he explains: “Doctors must have the skills to intervene correctly, but the skills are acquired with frequent repetition of the same operations”.
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Speaking of birth rates, the worst prognosis, which “sees a + 36% infant mortality in the southern regions, compared to the North and the Center, corresponds to a considerable number of infant deaths that could have been avoided with better facilities. Newborn deaths. or unfinished pregnancies – concludes Parisi – are disasters that affect families highly. It is a problem that must be brought before political decision makers “. He then tells how “the birth rate in Italy has decreased” also as a result of the pandemic, but it is difficult not to think that this does not depend on the structure of our society. Italy is not a country for young people “.
Then, he tackles the issue of precariousness and how in Italy there is “a large, substantial and constant emigration of people with a high professional background and the reason for this phenomenon is clear for me, perhaps not for everyone: a couple, to decide to have a child wants to have economic security and this, with precarious contracts, there is no “.
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