Generosity, creativity and energy to cope with the workload and family responsibilities during the pandemic. That's what many women have fielded in the last year. Some have found themselves more fragile, less autonomous, forced to accept situations of psychological and physical violence. Many have continued their commitment on the front line, in hospitals or other essential occupations. Now, for all, it is time to focus on their own health. This is the message launched on the occasion of the sixth National Women's Health Day, April 22, wanted by the Athena Donna Committee together with the Ministry of Health. A message also relaunched by the President of the Senate, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, by the Minister for the South Mara Carfagna,by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Elisabetta Belloni, by the deputy Beatrice Lorenzin, former Minister of Health. In addition to Ornella Barra co-Chief Operating Officer Walgreens Boots Alliance, Patrizia Polliotto President of IRCSS - Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, together with the President of Athena Donna Carla Vittoria Maira.
Together they wanted to remind with a video the importance of the prevention and treatment of every disease. "Be generous with yourself too - is the invitation of President Casellati - taking time for a medical screening or a diagnostic exam does not mean taking it away from work, home or children, but make an enormous gesture of love for life which is the most precious asset ". "The pandemic - adds the president of Atena Donna Carla Vittoria Maira - has interrupted the usual prevention procedures for health in general and for women in particular. The data relating to oncology, cardiovascular health and diabetes are worrying. the onset of the pandemic recorded a steady decline in access to diagnosis and treatment ".#Concentratisullatuasalute is the message conveyed also with bracelets made by women in prisons. The national day commemorates the birth of the Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini and Athena announces that she has also prepared a project to be presented at the W20 to ask, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, that it become international.
