00:00Today, research is making huge strides, fortunately, so as far as some pathologies are concerned,
00:11which once unfortunately led to fatal outcomes for patients, today we find ourselves faced
00:20with truly innovative therapies, where the patient not only sees his hope for life
00:27but also sees the need to improve his quality of life, because they are less heavy therapies
00:33with less side effects and therefore allow him to live a more or less normal life.
00:41From a national public health point of view, what are the needs that are still not addressed?
00:49I think maybe interdisciplinarity, the process of taking charge, what are the elements that are still missing?
00:56Because a patient feels really supported, let's say, and has a complete care.
01:03First of all, access to care as quickly as possible, from the moment a new therapy is discovered
01:12to the moment in which this therapy goes to the patient's bed, because many times
01:17bureaucracy involves extensions, so patients do not heal in the meantime, this is the first thing.
01:27Then we need an assonance, a collaboration between all those who are the various levels
01:34that take care of the patient, from the family doctor who is the first to realize that something is wrong
01:42to the government institutions that must instead speed things up and ensure that the national health service
01:52always guarantees access to that medicine, giving the possibility to use it for free.
02:00So it is a path that sees the synergy of all those who work in the health field for the patient.
02:10We are naturally close to the patient in the hospital, but we are also close to the patient in parliament,
02:20to the government, in the various institutional places, because we carry the voice of the patients.
02:27So the patient, for a while, on this side, is listened to, fortunately.
02:32So it's not just the doctor and the therapy, but it's also the patient who tells what he needs
02:39and therefore his care and safeguarding of the patient are of course very important,
02:45and the institutions must take care of it.
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