Five years ago Tina Anselmi, the first woman to hold the post of Minister of the Republic, died in Castelfranco Veneto, the same city where she was born 89 years earlier. Her figure and her commitment were remembered today by Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, president of the Senate, with a tweet in which she writes: "Five years ago, Tina Anselmi, one of the mothers of our Republic, left us. Very young partisan, teacher, politics of wrist, trade unionist, fervent Catholic. First woman minister, always consistent but open to dialogue, she changed the history of Italy ".

“I was at her funeral - adds Annamaria Parente, president of the Hygiene Commission of Palazzo Madama - and during the ceremony the words we always listened to from Tina echoed: remember that no conquest is forever. I have always regarded these words as the true legacy of the first female minister of republican history. In these long months of pandemic we have insistently recalled Anselmi as the mother of the national health service. 'His' law of '78 brought with it values such as global performance, universality of recipients and equality of treatment. Now, more than 40 years old, the health system shows fragility and flaws and the experience of the pandemic shows us the need to reform it, especially in the proximity of treatments, in the preparation for other pandemics, in prevention and uniformity throughout the national territory. It is really true that conquests are never forever. We must act in our time so that article 32 of the Constitution is fully applied and health care can function according to the key principles of the Anselmi law ".

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