anomalies Health Sicilian 
Sicily is the island of contradictions: with eight billion euro, is the first in Italy, healthcare spending, but it is also the first region to the journeys of hope, and is in the back rows on the charts for quality of health and the health of citizens.
Among the many oddities of health in Sicily, one of these, you continue to enjoy today in our hospital "Cutroni Zodda of Barcelona, where they were and are at risk of removal some departments. Precisely in these days, it was given over to an administrative procedure designed to transfer at the hospital of Milazzo, as well as the activities of Traumatology Hospital in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bbut only in Barcelona will be ensured only an outpatient basis. This decision was announced and it shows already in a communication sent to the unions by the General Manager Salvatore Giuffrida. Moving forward on this path, in Barcelona we will not have a hospital but only a simple pole and outpatient. A road taken by our Department of Health, which certainly in its remodeling, will lead to progressive weakening and downgrading of the hospital in Barcelona. These choices will result in a situation of health care clearly insufficient, especially considering the large user base of the whole district of Barcelona. In a city with a large pool of users such as Barcelona, \u200b\u200bit would have been more appropriate instead to strengthen and stabilize the existing departments. At this point we must ask: what will our local politicians, regional and national governments to protect rights which are increasingly being violated to the detriment of an entire community? What future awaits the Cutroni Zodda? Today more than ever the senior citizen or disabled person feels alone and helpless, while this government announces reductions in costs, to be allocated to the Welfare State, and Alderman of Health announced closures and reductions in hospital beds to heal a disastrous health budget, by charging the citizens and workers waste time committed by our public health institutions. The new Health Plan provides for the cutting of 2,700 beds. It starts from 64 hospitals and is expected to reduce the ASL at 9, at the provincial level, with 20 hospitals in addition to the five hospitals, 15 hospitals will be closed, of which 8 are converted into residences for the elderly (public?) and the remaining 24 will be weakened. In these new choices made by our Regional Healthcare, is being lost to the principle of solidarity, assistance, and may compromise, increasingly, public confidence in public health and therefore encourages them to continue their journey of hope towards the north, with costs for the entire community is not sustainable. We do not share and do not accept the new Health Plan presented by the Assessor of Health, who returned from a deficit unseemly size beds (2700) and closes hospitals (15 of which 8 conversion) by the workers and citizens pay the price higher. The health organization in Sicily, over time, has become known as "hospitals" in slot machines of public expenditure where, before treatment and assist the sick, it was thought only: to supply well-paid for materials often poor or defective, or was thought to enrich legal professionals for positions that could have been avoided and also to build monumental structures or health careers, or those of our Chief Medical Officer of General Managers. To read the budget of the Region, the WHO in Sicily, public and private, it would seem that it is perhaps still, in some ways, a big business with money often poorly spent. In Sicily, although there are excellent medical facilities, you are unable to ensure the normal routine, and so shamelessly, you cause the death of children moving from hospital to hospital, after downloading their own faults to others. Nursing missing, and many of those in service are subjected to temporary employment contracts that last for decades. A dramatic situation and the nurses for their future, the Department of Health does not offer any job security, and they are forced to shift heavy and jump off and leave. Invested little on staff or to improve the quality of care! Health Sicilian must finally speak out and act accordingly, each responsible for that task, because if the government did the good and the bad weather, in this as in other fields, this is also the responsibility of sterile opposition, episodic evanescent, and certainly not up to the seriousness of the task entrusted by the electorate. But they say in Sicily we have excellent facilities, the question arises: what is the choice when we are unable to ensure the normal routine? On the other hand, excellence is not incompatible with a modern health care system to be efficient and rational to be freed from the clutches of the parties but also by the barons of health care. It should be reorganized and strengthened the regional 118, especially considering that this region has a continuous movement of tourists from May to September high touch the top and this service must be able to have the means and adequate equipment, adequate health care and a suitable organizational network between hospitals and territory. To really change course and govern wisely and seriously and appropriately at the time of the day is good for health in Sicily to eliminate too many comfortable chairs that are often expensive and unnecessary. The Health Department must invest primarily: Safety of structures and land on medicine and medical and nursing staff, to cut waiting lists, to enhance public health and rehabilitate hospitals, because today, each Siciliano l 'health care, confessiamocelo, costs on average € 1514 per year.
