Health: stop funding for health education - Live Sicily

Into The Department of Health

PALERMO – The scissors of the Department Health are forced to cut. And to be cut this time are the contributions for the promotion, prevention and health education. To establish this fund which in recent years have drawn
especially associations, foundations and agencies was the former commissioner Massimo Russo. The fund was in fact created by a decree of 2011, which effectively suspended today Lucia Borsellino. The region thus saves about 500 thousand euro per year, which in the past had been allocated.

“There is no money, the choice is must for this reason,” says Jade Calzi Li, head of the technical secretariat of the Councillor for Health. In the decree, issued on 8 May and published today in the Official Journal, says, however, that “organizers of events, in keeping with the provisions of art. 15 of Law no. 22/1978, may continue to formulate requests for legal aid and the use of the logo of the Sicilian Region. ” Meanwhile square Ottavio Ziino do know, however, that health authorities and hospitals have at their disposal a budget to meet the above purposes. They will then use their cash on hand to carry out the activities of health education. And the region, at least from this point of view, save.