In order to ensure the production and supply of medical devices and personal protective equipment and at market conditions ", given their current" inadequate availability ", Invitalia" is authorized to provide loans through grants and management accounts, as well as subsidized loans to companies producing these devices "for an amount of € 50 million. The draft of the health decree that Ansa has viewed. In addition," the timely acquisition of personal and medical protective devices ", Civil Protection" it is authorized to open a special bank account to allow the swift settlement of transactions that require immediate or advance payment of supplies ".
Here are the other new features included in the draft. If a Region does not implement the measures of the decree on health, the Prime Minister, having heard the competent ministers, "warns the Region to take action within ten days. If the Region does not fulfill the President of the Council of Ministers", after hearing the ministers of Health, Economy and Regional Affairs, "appoints an ad acta commissioner, also in the person of the Head of Civil Protection". So the draft of the health care dl that ANSA has viewed.
"In order to address the exceptional shortage of medical and healthcare professionals, private structures, accredited and otherwise, are required to make available the medical staff on duty as well as the premises and equipment present in the aforementioned structures, required by the Regions Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna and Veneto ".
The prefects will be able to "requisition suitable hotel structures to host people in sanitary surveillance and fiduciary isolation or in home permanence" when the quarantine period cannot be spent at home. "Requisition allowances" are also envisaged on the basis of criteria established by a subsequent Prime Minister on the proposal of the Minister of Economy.
Private healthcare will also be called upon to make its contribution to tackling the Coronavirus emergency. The Regions are authorized to purchase "additional services" from private structures which will also be "required to make available the medical staff on duty as well as the premises and equipment" required by "Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna and Veneto" when the staff is missing because "hospitalized" or in quarantine for contagion from Covid-19.
Finally, justice could stop until 30 June. The rule, as far as we learn, is subject to changes that could be decided in the Council of Ministers at 6 pm. Therefore, civil and criminal hearings are postponed "to a date subsequent to 30 June 2020" with some specified exceptions, while they could be celebrated at closed doors the hearings scheduled as public.