MILAN (ITALPRESS) – Priority to research “to give more opportunities to our population, even through clinical trials” and because it is “at the basis of continuous progress regarding citizen assistance”. It is the line indicated by Monica Calamai, general manager of the Irccs Azienda Ospedaliera Metropolitana Liguria, result of the fusion between the genoese hospitals San Martino, Galliera and Villa Scassi (and, from July, the former Evangelico di Voltri will be added) in the context of the reform of the health promoted by the Liguria Region. He talked about it in an interview with Claudio Brachino for the First Floor section of the Italpress agency.
“Ircss covers two specificities: the oncological/oncoematological part, and the component that concerns innovation. All staff is very structured in this dimension” which “today is the basis of health because it makes the difference”.
Calamai arrived in Liguria as part of what defines a “revolution” of the regional health system. “The technical work to be carried out has a dual value: one is administrative, but the goal is to launch it towards the future where we are already immersed, thanks also to extraordinary tools that we have today.” But what will change for citizens? “Services must be structured for the person – Calamai continues –. On the one hand, we started reorganizing the agenda system with “more performance availability: being we a university hospital company, we tend to do second-level performance, but we are also making a contribution to the first visits, the first diagnostic, the territorial component we try to be particularly integrated with. We have significantly increased production, but on the other hand it becomes important to develop the grip of the citizen. The two things must go parallel.”
On the waiting lists Calamai emphasizes: “We have the ethical duty to offer citizens consistent answers with the needs. We are analyzing the phenomenon also at national level and there is a very high range of inappropriate that is not the responsibility of the citizen, but of those who induce the request”. The general manager cites as examples digestive endoscopy and diagnostics for images: “It is important to work so as not to put citizens into unnecessary examinations.” But not only: “There is also a phenomenon of non-presentation of the citizen that is common and that we are obviously trying to solve, going to fill those spaces with whom perhaps is waiting to be called. And there is also a significant phenomenon of citizens who, although recalled because a place in priority B has been liberated, who say: “I don’t like it.” There are so many complexities we are working on.”
For years Monica Calamai is an example of female leadership in the health world: “The synergies and equal opportunities produce different views and a greater growth of society. It is one of the issues underlined in the Pnrr that are inherent in the development of our country: gender inequalities and the north-south gap are serious problems even in health. This is a theme I’m working on. Also in the companies where I worked we started a cultural training path on gender medicine, but also of certification of gender of healthcare companies. It is not about having a bubble, but to start a path of cultural revision that reorients the system”.
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