Healthcare, 4.5 million without treatment. CEI and professions together for fair and accessible health

In Italy 4.5 million people cannot seek treatment and private spending in 2022 exceeded 40 billion, the 136 billion euros for financing the National Health Fund are not enough. This is what emerged today in Rome at the presentation of the conference ‘Health poverty in Italy’, scheduled for May 10th in Verona, the first of a series of meetings promoted by the Episcopal Commission for the service of charity and health and by the national office for the pastoral care of health of the CEI, the Italian Episcopal Conference, with the 11 Federations and National Councils of the health and socio-health professions, approaching the Health Jubilee of 2025, for which the program of joint initiatives was presented.

“The issue of those excluded from access to care is becoming an increasingly serious emergency – said Don Massimo Angelelli, director of the National Office for Health Pastoral Care (CEI), at the opening of the proceedings – If before one could think that concerned some very disadvantaged segments of the population, today we know that 4.5 million people cannot receive treatment and that private spending in 2022 has exceeded 40 billion the poor are being treated.” by Don Angelelli, who led the press conference during which the path leading to the 2025 Healthcare Jubilee was outlined.

Three distinct stages to analyze the main health poverty: 10 May in Verona, 15 November 2024 and 5 April 2025 in Rome. We therefore begin in Verona next Friday with a focus on the Italian situation: who and how many are those who, in our country, do not have access to the necessary care or cannot afford to purchase medicines. Industry experts, economists, researchers and institutional representatives, together with health and social care professionals, the bulwark of public health protection, will discuss solutions and strategies to improve national healthcare for a more inclusive healthcare of the future.

The event on May 10th, which will take place at the University of Verona, will see speeches by the Minister of Health Orazio Schillaci; by the director of the WHO European Office for Investment and Health Development Chris Brown; Silvio Brusaferro, full professor of general and applied hygiene at the University of Udine; Cristiano Camponi, general director of the National Institute for the promotion of the health of migrant populations and for the fight against diseases of poverty (Inmp); Americo Cicchetti, general director of health planning at the Ministry of Health; Alberto Siracusano, coordinator of the technical working group on mental health of the Ministry of Health, Ketty Vaccaro, sociologist and head of the welfare and health area of ​​Censis.

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To follow the conference on May 10th, in live streaming, it is possible to connect to the CEI YouTube channel, starting from 3pm.