About 2 million people in Italy suffer from psoriasis.
But what are the rights of psoriatic and atopic patients in health services?
And what benefits can derive from recognizing their condition?
These questions will be answered by the teachers of the free online training course "Patient Involvement School: focus on psoriasis", created by Apiafco (Association of Italian psoriasis friends of the Corazza Foundation) in collaboration with Altems, the High School of Economics and Management of health systems of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.
There are two thematic appointments: Tuesday 4 May we will talk about "Patient's rights: the benefits deriving from the recognition of one's condition".
On the following Tuesday, May 11, the topic will instead be "Patients' rights towards health services".
It is possible to follow the event on the Pso-Qol platform (https://www.pso-qol.it).
The thematic modules are an integral part of a broader training course structured in 8 weekly appointments, which started on 30 March and will end on 18 May.
"We must avoid at all costs that these patients suffer more than they should due to the health emergency, a risk that unfortunately becomes more and more evident and concrete with the prolongation of the measures adopted in the health sector - warns the president of Apiafco Valeria Corazza - To do this, it is necessary to bring the appropriate and legitimate restrictions back into proportionality and, above all, non-discrimination: patients with chronic diseases, such as psoriasis, must be able to be listened to, assisted and treated like any other patient; they must enjoy adequate protection with respect to their state of health; they must be able to access therapies within a reasonable time, under penalty of aggravating discomforts of various kinds ".
For Corazza, "the lack of direct contact with one's dermatologist and adherence to therapies is the cause of stress and tension that negatively affect patients, causing a worsening of the pathology in terms of both the type of symptoms and the extent of the disease. Not to mention that the status of chronically ill is not infrequently added to that of Covid, due to frailties that expose more to the virus. In other words: a battle fought on two fronts, an emergency within an emergency ".
