Don't close the Cardarelli Pain Therapy department.
The department was created thanks to law 30/2010 and was the first palliative care center in Central and Southern Italy.
Online petition to avoid the closure of the department that helps many families in Campania
At the end of October 2022, Cardarelli Pain Therapy will close. This is a humiliation for terminal patients.
The department was created thanks to law 30/2010 and was the first palliative care center in Central and Southern Italy.
A department that has offered over the course of many years a quality service to a demand for assistance that was severely lacking in our region, thus satisfying a real need.
From October, who will take care of the terminally ill?
To date, places have already become limited as space and personnel have been made available for Covid and not all terminally ill patients can be cared for at home. Law 38/2010 provides that the family member can request the GP to activate the procedure for the patient's hospitalisation in one of the dedicated hospices of the health district to which they belong (in Campania not all districts have activated this type of assistance), or the activation of the Home Palliative Care Units.
Regarding this last point: can all terminally ill patients activate the procedure for home care?
The protocol for home care requires the presence of 1 nurse who visits the patient once every two days, while the doctor once every 10 – 15 days, but this type of care is inefficient for a terminal patient who must be assisted 24 hours a day.
And what about people who are alone or who have homes that are not suitable for carrying out this service? It is a difficult service to activate from home and therefore families must rely on caregiver services or even if there is a relative, assume leave from work to assist him and therefore also with serious economic costs for the family.
With the closure of this department, what would happen to them? Would they remain hospitalized in the medical departments, taking away places from people susceptible to treatment?
The largest hospital in the South cannot ignore the "end of life" problem, it is a problem that must be widely publicized, terminally ill patients are not second-class patients and deserve to be assisted until the end in the best way for them and therefore trying to alleviate their suffering as much as possible and no less important is also the economic and psychological support that must be given to the families of these patients to move forward.
Article published on 31 October 2022 - 10:58
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