Maneuver, the appeal of six Regions to the Government: "More resources are needed for healthcare"

According to the governors, the funds allocated to healthcare would be less than the 5.5 billion indicated by Minister Schillaci as necessary for the National Health Fund. At the center of the appeal is the protection of the health service and the right to treatment. Schlein: "The government listens to the cry of the Regions on healthcare and finds the resources"

"The Government listens to its Minister of Health". This is the appeal launched by the presidents of Emilia-Romagna, Umbria, Sardinia, Tuscany, Campania and Puglia, who once again reiterate the centrality of the need to adequately finance Italian public healthcare. "It was Orazio Schillaci himself who indicated 5.5 billion euros as the additional resources necessary to support the National Health Fund", they declared. According to the governors, the rumors about the next budget would instead speak of an allocation of less than 2.5 billion euros, a figure considered insufficient compared to the needs of the healthcare system.

The presidents Michele de Pascale, Stefania Proietti, Alessandra Todde, Eugenio Giani, Roberto Fico and Antonio Decaro ask that healthcare become the priority of the next economic measure. "Healthcare must be put at the center of the next Budget. It is an absolute priority to allocate at least the amount that Minister Schillaci had indicated, not even one euro less is conceivable."

The governors reiterate the Regions' willingness to collaborate to achieve the objective and make an appeal to the political forces to ensure that healthcare financing represents the central point of the next law: "We Regions are available to collaborate, to do our part and we expect that on this front all the Regions will fight to achieve the result, consistently, for example, with what has already been declared by the Health Councilor of the Lombardy Region, Guido Bertolaso. This is also why we make an appeal to all the majority political forces and opposition so that this is the main content of the next Budget, the stability of the National Health Service is at stake and, with it, a fundamental principle: the right to health cannot depend on people's economic conditions".

"We make our own the cry of alarm and the appeal that the presidents of six Regions have addressed to the government, once again asking to adequately finance Italian public healthcare. And it is incredible that we have to resort to appeals and invocations, in order to guarantee citizens the right to health, provided for by the Constitution". Thus in a note the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, speaking about the measures in view of the maneuver. "We ask to bring health spending - he adds - to the European average of 7 percent of GDP because we cannot continue to ask the National Health Service to support itself with resources that are not up to the needs of people and territories, nor pass the shortfall onto the regions that cannot cope on their own. The government must listen to the Regions, stop making proclamations and make it a real priority".