“Due to the pandemic, prevention for tumors of the sexual sphere, male and female, has remained at a standstill: from prostate cancer to cervical cancer, just to name a few. Approximately 1.5 million services and activities were skipped that we are trying to recover amidst a thousand difficulties because there is a lack of medical and nursing staff. We have to act quickly, but it is necessary to invest more in the National Health Service”. This was stated by time.news Salute Antonio Chiantera, just elected to the presidency of AOGOI, the Association of Italian Hospital Obstetricians and Gynecologists, during the last national congress of the Sigo, Aogoi, Agui and Agite 2022 Federation, which recently ended in Milan and which brought together over 1,500 Italian gynecologists engaged in combating the falling birth rate.
And about the drop in births, a phenomenon that particularly affects Italy among industrialized countries, Chiantera has no doubts: “The diaper bonus, the measure that provides aid to families for children up to three years of age, is useful but not essential for combating the falling birth rate”. To “fight the drop in births, if anything, other types of support and support are needed: first of all, women must be helped so that they are able to reconcile work and family commitment and ensure that a nursery school is created in every workplace. Italy is getting older and older, we gynecologists must be proactive towards the institutions in tackling the problem”.