is done.
This time the fate of the hospital Oppido Mamertina was not only marked but also with unusual speed, made a reality.
The Regional Council of Calabria, with a resolution 87 of 12 February 2010 (fully readable by those interested, at http://www.regione.calabria.it/sanita/allegati/delibera_87_del_12. 2.2010.pdf ) off, "with immediate effect, the admissions system for inpatient and outpatient acute care disciplines relating to" a series of hospitals, among which, only in the Province of Reggio Calabria, to Oppido Mamertina.
In the same administrative act, adopted in order to implement the plan to return debts and inefficiencies of the health region agreed between central government and the region, is also expected that hospitals remain operational to disable services not related to acute, "including the ability to maintain / activate the fields falling within 56 and 60 (long-term care and rehabilitation)."
Under both, the Provincial Health Agency of Reggio Calabria, just a few days ago, ordered the freezing of admissions at the Department of General Medicine, only one in our hospital still operating in the treatment of acute illness, and 'activation replaced by the same long-term care of a post-acute type of internal medicine and the state, not rehabilitation.
The Health Department of the Presidium oppidese has promptly complied with this provision.
This concludes the centuries-old history of the hospital oppidese as a place of refuge for those who feel the most salient manifestations of a disease, and should be treated therapeutically by way of calls, if not urgent.
From March 3 onwards, the hospital (it would be better to say) something else, something akin to a hospice, however, and in the process of evolution and, therefore, a precise definition elusive.
E 'surreal, however, that this transformation in a country accustomed to the public at least compared to every rustle of foliage on the local health institutions, has been accompanied, in part vocii of the square, by a general silence.
E 'only known that the conversion would get placet administration in office, and it is equally important that the transformation in structure and long-term care patients to be rehabilitated was already hypothesis put forward by administrators who have given witness to the current in June 2009.
Perhaps this explains the lack of political utterances on the historic happened in recent days, but the carelessness of a company Civil much more involved on other occasions.
should be, in fact, that the public asks why the election of the Hospital of Oppido structure to be converted immediately since they could in order to choose the region in the Province of Reggio Calabria, between 5 different hospitals with a number of beds less than 60 (in addition to Oppido, the hospitals of Palmi, Gioia Tauro, Tauranga and Siderno), including at least two of them (the Deans of Palmi and Tauranga) had both quantity and quality of activities , standard of performance quite inferior to ours, not to mention that the isolation of the area Mamertine especially for a year and a half now, would discourage and prevent, at least for the moment, the downgrading of the local hospital, compared to Palma and Tauranga who are at a stone's throw from Gioia Tauro, respectively, and Polistena centers in which, at least on paper, Public Health continues to maintain its noble outposts.
And then those who object that the conversion is the "lesser evil" than the outright closure , would it be to ask if, roughly the last two decades, our community has protested the need for conservation of 'hospital only a matter of a bell tower (and if so, then long-term care and rehabilitation may also, selfishly, go along well), or because it is objectively necessary for the operation of a hospital for acute patients in the territory preaspromontano (and if the truth is this second, new institution can not be accepted lightly) .
And, with reference to the latter and to close the circle, a few of our representatives would be useful then ask why just in the past advocated the imperative need to confirm the health organization of this territory according to a model hospital dedicated the treatment of acute, and therefore very different from what is emerging, and now seems to have changed his mind in the name of pragmatism and realpolitik .
But perhaps it is not even linger in the event of hypothetical questions: the printed page these days seems to already, is not known for such incomprehensible wants, no longer belong to the present, but to our posterity, called historical analysis.
They will judge us, and our unanswered questions.
