The Feltre “Right to Health” committee collects hundreds of signatures in a few hours. The subscription will also be possible in presence on Saturday 18 in Pra ‘del Moro
FELTRE. The petition was launched online yesterday to safeguard the Psychiatry of Feltre from downsizing, or worse, from closure. After a first public release a month ago abundant, the Feltre committee “Right to health” has returned to work to raise awareness against “the continuous reduction of public social and health services in the province of Belluno”.
The petition was published on the website of the association which, only yesterday in a few hours, reached hundreds of signatures. A good sign. For the 18th of September, on the occasion of the Walk in the moonlight organized by the association “Donne come noi” to raise awareness of breast cancer among the public, a banquet is already planned by the committee, for the continuation collection of signatures from 7pm to 9.30pm in Pra ‘del Moro.
Banquet that will be re-proposed, after the debut of the one at the beginning of August, in the Feltre square. The second is in fact already scheduled for 21 September from 9 to 13 in Largo Castaldi (in front of Oviesse).
Again: the Committee is organizing a public meeting with the hope of putting technicians and politicians around the table on the future of provincial health care, from local to supra-municipal ones. Born in July 2021 by a group of citizens and volunteers of some associations that deal with the protection of mental health, following the news of the suspension of hospitalization in the psychiatry ward of the Feltre hospital due to the lack of psychiatrists, he a press release from the two coordinators Benedetto Calderone and Michela Somacal, «has decided to start a public awareness-raising petition to signal the continuous reduction of public social and health services in the province of Belluno. And to ask the Veneto Region, the Conference of Mayors of the Ulss 1 Dolomiti and the Ulss management, for concrete actions to safeguard mental health services ».
What the committee asks is to «block the process of weakening and privatization of health care giving absolute priority to the public health and social system, in compliance with the constitutional principle of universality and gratuitousness of the right to health. Specifically, the Department of the Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment Department of Feltre, now suspended, must be reactivated as soon as possible “.
The committee has collected the concerns of many citizens, the note continues. «It is recent the news that Ulss 1 Domiti has entrusted to a cooperative 180 shifts of 12 hours for the pediatric assistance service of Feltre and Belluno due to the lack of doctors. The lack of psychiatrists in the Department of Mental Health has also involved the Center for Eating Disorders of Feltre, slowing down the waiting times for periodic check-ups, a valuable and important service for families ».