“Il cost of the gas has doubled in the last period but the funding for health is always the same. Today we certainly cannot turn off the lights or the Tac. We are damaged and have no defense in this respect. The Government must intervene with special measures for hospitals, for example by removing VAT for affiliated hospitals or ancillary costs on bills. “Giovanni Vrenna, general affairs director of the Villa San Pietro-Fatebenefratelli hospital in Rome.
“Today we have a meeting with our energy services manager – underlines Vrenna – a year ago we luckily signed a contract with a deductible that allows us not to have increases in the event of increases of 10%, it could meet us with an extension of the payment times for bills, but here we are now far beyond. A hospital like ours – he remarks – has fixed costs and is always open, we certainly cannot interrupt the services to citizens “.