Back to be felt the Provincial coordination of the committees on health and territorial medicine. “In a valley like the Upper Trebbia Valley – this is the reflection that coordination feels like doing – there are many weaknesses. Among these, certainly that of the health response. It all started with the transformation (in 2015) of the Bobbio hospital into a community hospital (Osco). The issue has recently come back to the fore when, on the occasion of the Covid pandemic, the need for its strengthening was re-proposed by the provincial coordination of committees on territorial health and medicine and with some output also by local administrators. actual hospital condition “.
«Given the characteristics of the Apennine territory and its distance from the capital, it was considered necessary to restore, in addition to the wards for chronic diseases and long hospital stays, some wards such as a birth point, an orthopedics, surgery, as well as specialist clinics. Even the question of thermal waters, on the initiative of the Terme and Val Trebbia Committee, returned to the agenda to equip the public health center with departments used for certain rehabilitation therapies such as renal, respiratory, gynecological, etc. In this way the Bobbio garrison could be the provincial reference point for thermal treatments ».
The provincial health and social plan (approved in 2017) also provided for a health home in Bobbio to be entrusted with the coverage of specialist visits and assistance services. In short, important spaces seemed to reopen to ensure a better sanitary response to the valley.
«Today – notes the coordination – everything seems to go in the opposite direction. The public health unit in Bobbio was reconfirmed as a community hospital. The recovery of the thermal resource, to date, is completely stopped. Neither the Union of Municipalities nor the Region seem to really believe it. Di Casa della Salute, despite the promised investments, still nothing can be seen ».
“All the public planning (Municipalities, Ausl, Province and Region) and all the promises made (we remember the visit to Bobbio by the Minister of Health and the President of the region) seem to have been reduced to four slogans to be exhibited as needed, but without that nothing really changes. The need for health exists indeed increases and the absence of a public response (health is a constitutional right) opens real prairies to private initiative that manages to respond to requests for specialist visits, instrumental examinations and more. Small difference: those who can pay can get answers in a short time otherwise you have to put yourself on the waiting list to go to the capital or Castelsangiovanni with longer times. The provincial coordination on health and territorial medicine denounces what is happening in Bobbio because it is symptomatic of what is happening at the provincial level, that is, weakening public health ”.
«In this scenario – concludes the coordination – some local administrations could be tempted to use private structures instead of public ones. To make a swab, the municipal administration of Bobbio has in fact recently invited its employees to contact a private clinic that has recently strengthened its presence in Bobbio. As in the past, the public service of Piacenza could be used for the swab, or ask the Ausl to create a sampling point at the public health center of Bobbio (thus facilitating all citizens of the valley). If this is the sensitivity of our local administrators, it is easy to understand why the many promises on territorial medicine and the strengthening of public health lose credibility ».
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