In our country there are still too many barriers, physical and cultural, which hinder access to treatments. On the Corriere Salute on newsstands for free with the Corriere on Thursday 3 March
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Delays, postponements and cancellations of visits, outpatient services and diagnostic tests during the pandemic have become the order of the day, creating enormous problems already for able-bodied patients. But those with disabilities had to cope obstacles that have turned out for them often insurmountable. They did not receive the necessary protection. The pandemic has highlighted the inadequacy of health and social services – he stresses Silvia Cutrera, vice president of Fish (Italian Federation of overcoming handicap) -. After the closure of the territorial services, people remained confined to residential services, in their homes without having access to alternative measures, in their homes if they already lived alone.
the pandemic
The fundamentals were missing, as Fish and Fand (Federation of national associations of people with disabilities) remark, namely both the implementation of the essential levels of assistance and the provision of aids and aids. In this pandemic period, we have all realized how important access to treatment is. We have experienced how appointments were moved to make room for the emergency and how certain departments did not allow for new visits to be made or were converted into Covid sectors. All to the detriment of prevention, treatment or surgery of a different nature. For many people with disabilities, this sense of exclusion from access to health services is often the norm, he adds Stefania Pedroni, vice-president of the Italian Union against muscular dystrophy (Uildm). The situation becomes even more critical for those suffering from a serious pathology, such as one rare genetic disease. In fact, it often happens that important periodic visits to monitor the course of the disease are postponed. And even when these patients have problems that are not directly linked to their pathology (ophthalmology, gynecological, mental), the right to health is not always guaranteed. Instead, it is an inviolable right, sanctioned by article 25 of the 2006 UN Convention according to which disabled people must be able to enjoy the best possible state of health without discrimination related to their disability. For this reason, Member States are asked to provide them with health services in the same way as everyone else.
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