Between 2020 and 2022, 32,500 beds
were cut in Italian hospitals, according to figures released
Thursday.
And between 2019 and 2022, more than 11,000 doctors left public
health facilities, according to a report from the 75 scientific
societies of hospital and university clinicians (FoSSC).
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.
FoSSC asked the government for a "major structural reform and
urgent measures to save the NHS.
It said "treatment for all is at risk".
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