Armando Bartolazzi talks about the new regional network and the goal of ensuring access to innovative drugs on the Island too.
In recent days, the words of the Health Councilor have caused discussion, especially the references to the prices of these drugs and the consequences for the elderly if they are not lowered: "If they are not lowered, there is the risk that those of a certain age cannot be treated because there are no resources. This is why I insist on the need to invest in prevention."
What does it mean? Are people over 80 at risk or not?
" Already today, some therapies with innovative drugs that could be very effective, in Italy and Europe, are not offered to patients. If prices are not lowered, it will be increasingly difficult to provide them, and who will lose out? The older patients."
Why?
"I don't write the guidelines for those who use these drugs, nor does Minister Schillaci, they are written by AIFA. For each tumor disease there is the eligibility of the patient. What criteria they use is yet to be seen, but I repeat: the decisions on who to treat are not made by Bartolazzi, nor by the Todde Council."
And what about the issue of expensive drugs for the over-eighties?
" I never said I didn't want to treat people over eighty, that's not in heaven or on earth ."
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