Review the project for the single hospital on the Sorrento Peninsula that will be built in Sant'Agnello. This is requested by MP Carmen Di Lauro who presented a parliamentary question to the Ministry of Health and Infrastructure.
In the question, also born from the impulse of the activists of the Peninsula, in particular the M5S municipal councilors of the Municipalities of Piano, Meta and Sant'Agnello, from the Meetup of Vico Equense and from the activists of Greenitalia Campania, several critical issues are highlighted on the place where the Level I Dea will be built in Sant'Agnello, a municipality at high hydrogeological risk. For the deputy, the 2018 feasibility study of the work does not take into account the fragility of the territory of Sant'Agnello, as can be deduced from the illustrative tables relating to the danger of landslides and the hydraulic risk of the Sarno basin authority. In this case in Viale dei Pini, the access road to the new hospital structure, a series of subsidences have occurred in recent decades because it was built on the filling of waste material spilled into the San Filippo stream.
The choice of Sant'Agnello does not take into account the environmental and logistical problems, and it does not take into account the urban changes that the municipality, in the heart of the Sorrento Peninsula, will undergo with the consequent rethinking from a tourist destination par excellence to a hospital municipality, given the size of the new Level I Emergency Department. For Di Lauro «some risk factors have not been taken into consideration, such as the inevitable traffic congestion and the indiscriminate increase in vehicular traffic due not only to the use of the facility by patients and visitors and the necessary access for health workers and related means of supply in general, taking into account that the hospital would be built in the very center of the city via the only connecting road, already notoriously chaotic in itself.
The work presented by the Region - the Deputy says - leaves us perplexed, because it is an investment of over 65 million euros that may not resolve the critical issues of the health system of the Sorrento peninsula, if not, even worsen them and extend them to new areas, such as the road network of the municipality of Sant'Agnello and nearby areas. The importance of the construction of a Level I Dea on the Peninsula is unquestionable, but we must take into consideration additional factors, such as livability, soil protection and logistics, and understand the effects of this work on the future. Furthermore, it is desirable that the construction process of the new hospital be accompanied by a series of investments to relaunch the hospital facilities of Vico Equense and Sorrento with the aim of strengthening territorial medicine".
Article published on March 6, 2021 - 15pm
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