“If this step is to be taken and the parliamentary Intergroup of chronicity revitalized, I put my sensitivity as a doctor into play and I am there”. So Senator Ignazio Zullo (Fratelli d’Italia), member of the X Standing Commission for Social Affairs, Health, Public and Private Work, Social Security of Palazzo Madama, at Adnkronos Salute on the occasion of World Kidney Day which is celebrated on 9 March . In chronic kidney disease, he underlines, “the most important thing is an early diagnosis, with blood and urine tests”, costing a few euros, “to evaluate the parameters of renal function. If this is done at a certain age and at the slightest suspicion (these are conditions at risk: hypertension, diabetes or heart failure, ed), people’s quality of life can be improved, questioned by a pathology that presents itself in a subtle and silent way” (VIDEO).
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“If in the last legislature there was a commitment to an inter-parliamentary group for tapering – observes Zullo – I think it should be reconstituted. Chronicity is one of the biggest public health problems and presupposes, on the one hand, health promotion interventions, with correct styles of life, primary and secondary prevention, early diagnosis, but let’s not forget the tertiary sector, the rehabilitation of the outcomes”. Then there is, “the taking charge of the person”.
On the topic of the working table at the Ministry of Health and on the work to arrive not only at updating the ministerial guidelines, but also of the National Chronicity Plan, “obviously – says the senator – we must standardize the behaviors to achieve the best appropriateness that it is not only prescriptive, but also allocative of resources. We need updated guidelines and we need to take stock of the situation. We have outdated guidelines and we need to understand with the ministry what progress has been made”. In this process, Zullo highlights the “need for the contribution of scientific societies and to attract a ‘consensus conference’ to bring the support of the sector’s protagonists, because the guidelines – he concludes – must be applied not because they have the force of law, but because they are convincing for all the actors who enter the system”.
