WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanitanova #2-25: In the square on April 5th. From the Appeal of the group for the defense of health (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In 2025, the Italian group of the European network "Health is not for

sale" intends to carry out initiatives on April 5th in various
locations, taking into account the availability of associations and
local entities that fight for the right to health and the defense of the
public national health service and enriching the general themes with the
objectives of local disputes. These initiatives are part of the European
day against the commercialization of health that the network organizes
on the occasion of World Health Day. ---- This year, the theme of the
relaunch of public health, a point shared by the many initiatives
carried out and underway, will probably be accompanied by the theme of
the fight against differentiated autonomy initiatives that see the right
to health, to be implemented through regional public health services,
put at further risk with a prospect, among other things, of a further
increase in health "migrations".

Various factors put universal access to prevention, treatment and
rehabilitation services at risk. Among the main ones we recall the
increasingly widespread privatization of services, the defunding of
public health care which is now also bent to accounting logic (balanced
budget at the expense of the "production" of health), the reduction of
social-health personnel, the push to flee operators and workers from the
most stressful activities (emergency room, territorial medicine, safety
at work), the abandonment of prevention policies (they do not bring
profit!) and finally the lack of tools for participation from below in
health care.

All this increasingly pushes people, now reduced to "customers", to give
up treatment or to

bear additional costs either directly or through mutual funds and health
insurance such as the

so-called "corporate welfare" provided for in national employment
contracts. The lengthening of waiting lists is the greatest visible
effect; the organizations promoting the initiatives intend to intervene
collectively on the causes of this.

In Europe, common objectives are the fight against "austerity" policies
that finance armaments with a progressive increase in funds allocated to
military spending, limiting investments and funds allocated to
healthcare and social rights, the creation of a public body for research
and production of essential medicines, the guarantee of universal rights
to care, adequate consideration of different cultures, proximity of
services and defined access times, the fight against commercial excesses
(starting with the predominance of "big pharma"), grassroots
participation in healthcare facilities through the participation of
staff and user representatives. The suffocation of public intervention
and the increase in military spending in the various states of the
European Union are the main arguments against the health of the population.

The appeal is promoted by the Italian group of the European Network
"Health is not for sale" composed of Democratic Medicine, Forum for the
Right to Health, Coordination Campano for the right

to health, Coordination Milanese di Solidarietà dalla parte dei lavoratori.

On February 4th, when this issue of Umanità Nova is in press, a first
online organizational meeting took place. To join, to get more
information and participate in upcoming initiatives, you can send an
email to medicinademocraticaets@gmail.com.

T. Antonelli

https://umanitanova.org/in-piazza-il-5-aprile-dallappello-del-gruppo-per-la-difesa-della-salute/
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