Between 2020 and 2022, 32,500 beds were cut in Italian hospitals, according to figures released Thursday. More than 11,000 doctors left public health facilities between 2019 and 2022.
The number of hospitals is also decreasing: in 10 years, 95 have been closed (9%). And resources are less and less in 2024, the financing of the government's Health Fund increased in absolute terms compared to 2021 but decreased in relation to GDP and is being eroded by inflation. The 75 scientific societies of hospital and university clinicians (FoSSC) asked the government for "major structural reform and urgent measures to save the NHS." It said "treatment for all is at risk" and that the NHS was in danger of becoming a "vulnerable institution" and was in need of "urgent structural reform" and "immediate measures" to save it. For confidential support, call the Samaritans in the UK on 08457 90 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or click here for details.