Pesaro, work delayed for the New Hospital. Mayor Biancani: "We need certain dates".

Speed, dates and costs guaranteed for the construction of the works and a plan to combat passive mobility. These are some of the main points raised today by Mayor Andrea Biancani during the press conference to present the New Hospital of Muraglia: «It's time for acceleration – he says -. The works should have already started by last December, while today we are at the presentation of the project. We need certain dates that reassure us about the start of the actual work. So far we have too much time already wasted, first with the rejection of the previous project which, if it had been approved, would have already delivered a new structure to the city, then with the debate on the choice of location and finally with the closure of the Marche Nord company».

Furthermore, «the 204 million expected to realize the project, I hope they will be sufficient to give the North of the Marche a hospital competitive. We need a structure that is able to receive the people of Pesaro and also citizens of the entire territory, to counteract the passive mobility". A priority according to the mayor is that "Pesaro becomes a barrier to block this phenomenon and this can only be done by restoring the excellence that our territory deserves. The data from the province are alarming, because more and more citizens decide to seek treatment, or have operations, beyond the border. A exodus which, according to the forecasts and data presented, will cost approximately 64 million euros; 40% more than in 2019."

In addition to highlighting the need for a state-of-the-art hospital, safe from a seismic point of view and with spaces suitable for accommodating new technological equipment and more, Mayor Biancani has once again focused attention on the 2022 agreement: «The dates were not respected as the work was supposed to start by 2024 and, furthermore, the 100 beds for patients suffering from mental disorders, which according to the agreement were supposed to remain in the city, have been transferred and we do not know when and if they will ever return». The new structure, of approximately 70 thousand square meters, includes over 400 seats «but we hope it can be modulated, so as to be able to recover some of the approximately 200 additional places that were instead foreseen in the previous project», he specified.

Then a passage on the current situation of the departments and the various hospital structures in the neighbouring cities: «Maintaining the 4 active garrisons in Pesaro, Fano, Pergola and Urbino, two of which are very similar and 10km apart, unfortunately it will do nothing but increase the competition and conflicts between departments. In fact, the various cities will be increasingly committed, rightly, to "do the numbers" in order to maintain services in their own structures, increasingly competing for patients. A structure that most health workers tell me they do not agree with, as they are often forced to work in a staff shortage". The mayor's statements refer to the recent classification of the Ast Company Act, which catalogued the Obstetrics department and Gynecology of Pesaro as asimple operating unit, without primary, unlike those of Fano and Urbino. Finally: «I thank the Marche Region for having publicly presented the project that the city was waiting for, but I reiterate the need to define dates, costs and speed up the times. As mayor – concludes Biancani – I can only be happy with an investment, like the one presented today, of over 200 million euros, which concerns healthcare and the health of citizens».