Healthcare Prioritization and Challenges: A Government's Response

“It is surprising that only now a group of scientists is noticing issues that have been dragging on for at least a decade. I believe this Government must be acknowledged for placing health among its priorities. It is undeniable that there has been an increase in resources to the national health fund and that Minister Schillaci is working on structural reforms on the most urgent issues, such as waiting lists.” “Some say today that there would be better treatments in England, it is clear that there is not a real awareness of the crisis that the English health service is experiencing and especially of the better outcomes of treatments and quality of the assistance of our health service. Our duty is to support health with our knowledge and skills. It seems to me that an appeal perhaps born with good intentions had the sole effect of facilitating political instrumentalizations. I am available to be part of a task force of national and international experts at the Ministry of Health together with the eminent scientists who signed the appeal since, having been themselves protagonists in the management of health in the last twenty years, they will certainly be able to contribute usefully to understand how we have reached this point.” This is what Antonio Giordano, director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Temple University in Philadelphia, declares.