Aiop, a private hospital business risk
L’cost increase for the gas el‘electric energy jeopardizes the activity of 45 private hospitals in Emilia-Romagna. It is how much I complainAiop-Association of Private Hospital regional government requesting an urgent response from the Emilia-Romagna Region to safeguard the structures subjected to “an increase in costs that is around the 10% for a fundamental sector that al Public Health System invoice approx 596 million“. That, represented by the Emilia-Romagna Aiop in a note, is not a sector that allows you to slow down performance or be able to switch off the machinery sanitizing, just as it is not possible to have temperatures higher or lower than a certain limit. summer and winter. And this, with the increase in energy costs (+ 127% for electricity and + 141% for gasis selected) in the first half of the year generated “big bills” for health facilities already “veterans of difficult years linked to the pandemic” caused by Coronavirus.
“The situation is very serious – writes the president of Aiop Emilia-Romagna Luciano Natali in a letter addressed to the President of the Region Stefano Bonaccini which is asked for a meeting with the regional councilor for health, Raffaele Donini and to the general manager, Luca Baldino -: we ask the governor of Emilia-Romagna to take note of a real one state of crisis of our sector which, if not dealt with promptly, could lead to the dramatic suspension of business and, perhaps, to the closure of many companies. I balance sheets of the 2022 – topic – I’m beautiful to the point of undermining the reserves of the individual companies and requiring an intervention by the shareholders “.
A picture, the one outlined by the representative of the regional Aiop, which could also affect the commitment put in place to reduce waiting lists, after the times marked by Covid and on the social and health sector front “I believe – adds Natali – that all the efforts that we have put in place with the latest Regional Agreement to combat waiting lists are in serious danger of being thwarted “while on the side of the structures that care for and assist the elderly, the situation is burdening, in addition to the bills for energy, the non-reimbursement of personal protective equipment, swab tests and anti-Covid diagnostic tests. “This – points out the number one of the regional AIO – further aggravates the general picture and therefore we ask the Region to restore these reimbursements, which still remain substantial, at least until the permanent epidemic is unfortunately not over”.