He has suffered for years from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a degenerative disease that forces him to use a wheelchair and whose progression risks being fatal.
Specialists recommended a drug to counteract the effects of the disease, but it risks making him sterile. CD, 36, living in Campania, would therefore like to be able to freeze his sperm, but he discovered that the health service does not provide this treatment even in exceptional cases like his.
The young man's SOS Campania he reached the Ministry of Health, which responded by emphasizing that the 'cryopreservation of male gametes' can be guaranteed, according to a 2017 Prime Ministerial Decree, only after the adoption of an inter-ministerial decree that defines the rates.
CD has therefore decided to make an appeal to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: “I would not like to lose one of the most beautiful gifts of life, the possibility of having children. For me and for my partner. I believe it is unfair to exclude this expensive possibility from the services of the national health system: just as treatment for SMA is guaranteed completely free of charge, the right to parenthood must be guaranteed in the same way”.
Article published on November 25, 2022 - 08:13
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