"Once the emergency is over, it's time to look to the future and relaunch health care, because the pandemic has brought out fragility alongside response capabilities. It is essential to invest in the human capital of the National Health Service, making public health more attractive".
This was stated by the Minister of Health,
Orazio Schillaci
at the event in Montecitorio on the occasion of the national day in memory of the victims of the coronavirus epidemic.
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“I consider it a duty to recall the victims of Covid just over three years after the pandemic and say that I believe that we are in this situation today thanks to an extraordinary vaccination campaign that was implemented not by the commissioner but by Italy” .
Thus
Francesco Paolo Figliuolo
, joint commander of the Defense General Staff, on the sidelines of the event.
"The central institutions, the regions, the autonomous provinces, the volunteers, the armed forces and the civil protection worked together - he added - and there was the extraordinary commitment of all our health workers, medical nurse operators as well as all those who were in the part It was a
choral effort
that saw Italy capable of overcoming an emergency".
The Chamber of Deputies "remembers today with deep emotion those who lost their lives due to a virus, unknown at the time, which devastated the whole world, claiming millions of victims".
The president of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana told Montecitorio.
"Those tragic events - he recalled - severely hit communities and entire families who, in their most desperate hour, were unable to pay their last respects to their loved ones. I also wish to recall the spirit of heroic self-sacrifice that all healthcare personnel have shown since the beginning of the pandemic. To doctors, nurses and operators, and to their sacrifice, we all owe deep gratitude".
"But-he admonished-so that all this never happens again,
it is necessary to identify the most effective strategies to improve the response of our health system to any future emergency crises of this nature.
To this end, it is necessary to work on the critical issues that emerged in the pandemic period, enhancing, for example, proximity medicine and local health facilities, which can undoubtedly guarantee a more immediate response to citizens and, in particular, to the most fragile" such as "the elderly and people with chronic diseases".