“The number of Italian elderly people is the highest in Europe: a fact that is very clear to the Minister of Health Schillaci and the Government. We have recently approved the decree which was supposed to protect, bring together and integrate the national health system and the social system for ‘elderly, to achieve personalized medicine, to try not to make the most fragile subjects feel alone, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella also said, ‘the category of the elderly, together with that of children, must be protected and protected’. The elderly must be supported from a social, economic as well as health point of view. It is essential to raise their awareness of vaccination.” This was said by Maria Rosaria Campitiello, head of the Department of Prevention, Research and Health Emergencies of the Ministry of Health, speaking at the conference ‘Prioritization of vaccination prevention against respiratory diseases in the elderly and frail: experts in comparison’, promoted by Longlived Italy in the Auditorium of the Ministry of Health.
“It’s true, the pandemic has scared everyone a bit with regards to the topic of vaccinations – Campitiello points out – we notice a certain tiredness but our duty is to reiterate that there are safe vaccines, that there are vaccines that save lives, that vaccination it is especially important in frail and elderly subjects.”
“We in the team expected this boost to the National Health Fund, already reiterated several times by the prime minister, which did not occur last year only because urgent problems were being addressed. But the desire to finance the FSN was very present in all the speeches of Prime Minister Meloni and Minister of Health Schillaci, who fought in recent years with all the strength he could because he is the first, as a doctor and rector, to believe in our national health system”. Not only resources will be allocated to doctors and nurses for more concrete assistance, “but a lot will also be invested in research, as Schillaci has reiterated several times”.
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