2023-11-15 04:31:00
Sick healthcare, here are the nine Italian regions that do not screen newborns
The tangible signal of difficulties of public health in Italy It’s the issue of newborn testing. Babies should undergo one within 72 hours of birth screening per prevent very serious diseases which can lead to death in a very short time, but in nine regions this doesn’t happen because the law has not been updated and the decrees have been on hold for 7 years. Ettore – we read in Il Fatto Quotidiano – is died in Vicenza hospital at 35 days old of life, in silence, while the government mobilized (noisily) to give Italian citizenship to Indi Gregory, the eight-month-old English baby suffering from an illness considered incurable by the doctors who have cared for her since birth. Struck by respiratory crises, the little boy had a rare genetic disease: SMA, spinal muscular atrophy. If he had been born in Puglia, Lazio, Abruzzo, Lombardy, Liguria, Piedmont or Tuscany he could have been saved.
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Instead – continues Il Fatto – it was born in Venetowhere newborn screening has not started to diagnose this pathology, for which it is necessary intervene immediately with the three therapies currently available. Except that Veneto is not an exception, on the contrary. There are nine other Regions that they do not foresee lo screening. Basilicata, Marche, Sardinia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Emilia-Romagna, Calabria, Sicily, Umbria and Molise. Some have started the process (in addition to Veneto itself, the Marche, Sardinia and Basilicata) which in some cases however has been at a standstill for two years, in others it is awaiting the signature, which never arrives, of a general director. The result is that Italian children are not all the same. There are the virtuous Regions which, regardless of the timing of the Ministry of Health, have expanded the panel, adopting their own regional legislation, and those which remain waiting, depriving newborns of a screening which must be carried out within a maximum of 72 hours after birththrough a blood sample from the heel.
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