(Adnkronos) - “Il Servizio sanitario nazionale ha bisogno di una trasformazione, perché è chiaro che i bisogni aumentano e le risorse sono quelle che sono, si fa fatica a reperirne di nuove, o forse manca anche la volontà di farlo. Sta di fatto che l'automedicazione diventa uno strumento indispensabile, perché permette al cittadino di potersi curare per le patologie minori senza dover afferire a quelli che sono i servizi sanitari strutturati. Ma per poterlo fare deve essere informato. Ecco che allora le farmacie, presenti anche nelle zone più periferiche, nelle zone montane, sono il riferimento su cui bisogna puntare. Il farmacista, con la sua conoscenza, la sua familiarità con le persone, è la persona che più di altre può indurre, educare a usare l'automedicazione”. Lo ha detto all’Adnkronos Salute Gian Antonio Girelli (Pd) membro della Commissione Affari sociali della Camera, in occasione dell’incontro ‘La trasformazione in atto del Ssn – L’impegno del settore dell’automedicazione per la sanità territoriale’ promosso da Assosalute a Roma.
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00:00What do you think about the need for a transformation in the national health service?
00:05The national health service needs a transformation because, of course,
00:09the needs are increasing and the resources are what they are,
00:12and it is difficult to find them again, or perhaps the will to do so is lacking.
00:16It is true that self-medication becomes an indispensable tool
00:20because it allows the citizen to be able to, in a certain way,
00:23cure minor pathologies without having to resort to the structured health services.
00:30But to be able to do so, you need to be informed
00:33and you need to have a reference point to compare yourself with when doing so.
00:37That is why the pharmacies, which are present in the entire national territory,
00:41even in the most peripheral areas, in the mountainous areas, in the outskirts of the cities,
00:45are the reference point you need to focus on.
00:49The pharmacist, with his knowledge, his familiarity with people,
00:53is the person who, more than anyone else, can induce, educate, to use self-medication.
00:59What does politics have to do?
01:01It has to be aware of this added value of putting in the system,
01:04which clearly does not replace the service in its entirety,
01:08in the maximum specializations, in hospitals, in polyamory, in specialization,
01:12but simply accompanies it and brings it closer.
01:15You have to invest in the pharmacies,
01:18seeing them more and more as territorial health care,
01:21you have to invest in the communication and training of citizens
01:24and also intervene in the market
01:27to make sure that all drugs, without the need for medical prescription,
01:31can be made available and can be known and used by all citizens.
01:39Because the danger is that, often and willingly,
01:42these tools of great innovation are only accessible to a part of the population,
01:46leaving everything else excluded.
01:49And perhaps this, which is the most fragile, the most necessary,
01:52the less culturally prepared, needs an accompaniment.
01:55Hence, next to the figures I said before about the pharmacists,
01:59the importance of the valorization of the third sector and local administrations.