The current government is in continuity with the previous ones: nefarious
policies of privatization and cutting of staff and hospital infrastructure.Nurses, structured medical personnel, health assistants have undergone a drasticreduction in numbers. Those who are still in business are forced into gruelingshifts. The number of beds fell by 30% between 2000 and 2017. It was clear fromthe outset that the health system could never hold up. Yet nothing has been doneto reverse the trend. The logic that the rulers have always followed has alwaysbeen to safeguard the production and circulation of goods, favoring businessesand their interests. On the other hand, more than 400,000 surgical interventionshave been postponed due to the impossibility of keeping patients in postoperativeconvalescence under observation. These include cancer patients or cardio-vascularproblems, or others who have become inoperable due to prolonged waiting. To thiswere added cancellation or suspension of visits and diagnostic tests. Trulyimpressive numbers that add up to the lack of health services. An 80% decrease inscheduled activities.But health does not only mean the absence of disease, it is not "just" a demandfor hospital beds, funding or tampons, but also concerns the social and materialconditions of people as a whole. The privatization and deconstruction of localservices, the reduction of consultants to bureaucratic clinics providing servicesand no more listening spaces, close to anyone who needs them, district bydistrict, are problems already present before the pandemicHealth is increasingly a luxury for the fewand especially for the richThe imposition of the green pass by the Draghi government has never aimed atcontaining the contagion. It is a control tool on the one hand and a socialdistraction on the other, since the vaccine - an important and necessary healthmeasure - reduces mortality but is not yet able to fully immunize.The criminal management of the pandemic emergency, the arbitrary choice not toguarantee prevention and treatment, preferring to invest large sums of money inthe war sector, in major works, in supporting businesses at the expense of socialspending, is there for all to see.The logic of profit at all costs comes before the protection of health. "Produce,consume, crack" is the dominant paradigm.Our lives count only within the machinery of the state and capitalist system thatwants us to be obedient and productive. It is more and more urgent to initiatepaths of solidarity and struggle that are able to remove the services necessaryfor the community from the clutches of state control and private speculation. Theconstruction of spaces for self-management of life and health are the only realway out of the nightmare in which we find ourselves living.Our lives are worth more than their profitsAnarchist Federation of Livorno - FAIhttps://collettivoanarchico.noblogs.org/post/2022/01/28/la-salute-e-un-lusso-per-ricchi/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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