Mental health, social alarm for over 200,000 patients - BlogSicilia.it (Blog)

“Mental health is a social emergency that the Regional Department of Health is guilty of underestimating and addressing, in a purely bureaucratic where targeted interventions would be needed immediately.”

The attack of Elvira Morana , member of the Secretariat of the CGIL Sicily . The position follows a misunderstanding. Wednesday afternoon, in fact, was scheduled alderman a meeting on the issue with unions and associations from across the region, but the commissioner Lucia Borsellino “hiatus”, without even inform the social partners. “Consider this-says Morana-a real accident institutional if not the result of lack of awareness of the problem. “

The secretary of the CGIL doth therefore the numbers that characterize the issue: “The people who might be in need of targeted interventions-says-are from 120 thousand to 220 thousand. To these are added the 2,075 people with mental disabilities in 2012 was allocated to community housing and family homes as well as assisted in CTA (Therapeutic Communities assisted) and the question of the disposal of the psychiatric hospital records of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto. “

Into “ The question many are open – continues Morana – and of such weight that the attitude councilor is reprehensible. There are not enough analysis on paper but it is time to attack the unsolved problems of the management of mental health issue. Instead, concluded the commissioner Morana-Borsellino is no escaping that evade the issue for the umpteenth time in comparison with the union and with the industry, you need to have the framework of actions that need to be put in place. “