00:00What are the results in these 5 years after the pandemic and are the challenges still open?
00:13Yes, the date has also been chosen for this.
00:16Five years have passed and the pandemic has certainly deeply affected the lives of all of us and the National Health Service.
00:22I believe that from the lesson of the pandemic we must understand what did not work at best.
00:28I think first of all about territorial medicine.
00:30We are working on this to ensure that there is a more modern health, more within the reach of the citizens.
00:36And above all, from the lesson of the pandemic, we have learned how important health and social workers are.
00:43This day is dedicated to them, they are at the center of our attention.
00:48It is a world that has changed, it is a health that has changed.
00:51We also need new skills to win the challenges that await us, which are those of digital medicine and telemedicine.
00:57We must have health and social workers in line with the times, for a better health.
01:02Minister, is the new pandemic plan expected?
01:05It was sent yesterday to the regions, now they are examining it.
01:08There is the economic coverage put in the financial one, which was not there before.
01:11And so soon we will have the response of the region.
01:14Will the regions be protected?
01:15Of course, absolutely.
01:16But then the freedoms will be protected and above all the citizens will be protected.
01:20And health will be protected?
01:21Health will be protected, absolutely.
01:23What are the important principles?
01:26I repeat, I am a minister, I am not a technician.
01:30So once they are accepted by the region or by the regions with the changes, you will have it available, you will be able to see it, there are no problems.
01:37Minister, health professions, especially nurses, but also doctors, complain that they are very few, that they are underpaid.
01:45And there is also a physical problem of staff.
01:49There is a lack of doctors and nurses.
01:51With the PNRR, the territorial medicine that you said is very important, obviously, but how does it come out?
01:58If we look at the data, there is no lack of doctors at all.
02:02If we compare with other European nations, with the OECD, the number of doctors per inhabitant in Italy is absolutely in line.
02:09Unfortunately, there are no doctors for some specializations and there are no doctors for general medicine, which has unfortunately become unattractive.
02:18So on the one hand, as far as doctors are concerned, we must act to make specializations and general medicine more attractive, which they are not today.
02:26Nurses are missing, but it is not only an Italian problem, it is a global European problem.
02:31As you know, we are working on it.
02:33There are many regions that are also looking at different countries from those that we may have identified at the beginning.
02:40It is clear that on nurses we must make a particular speech, we must make the profession attractive again.
02:47We have started to do it because in the new specialist degrees we have put recognitions to nurses who did not have before.
02:54They must be paid absolutely more, because if we always look at the OECD data, those who are paid much less than the European standards are always more nurses than doctors.
03:03So on nurses we have a particular attention, but I repeat, it is not only an Italian problem, it is a global European problem.
03:09Minister, in the hospital there is a patient on whom we are all a little apprehensive. Is it the father?
03:16We obviously send our best wishes to the Holy Father.
03:20Surely he is in an excellent hospital and we hope that he will solve these respiratory problems as soon as possible, from what I read.
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