Federmar-Cisal fears the next dismantling of the structure of sanitary assistance to the marine ones



. The union has remembered that, with the approval of the last law of stability introduced from the government Berlusconi, the transfer to the Regions with effect from on January 1°, 2013 is decided of the sanitary assistance for the sailors up to now carried out from the Service National Sanitary Assistance (SASN) of the health ministry.

"It is an eccentric and completely incomprehensible decision - the national secretary of Federmar-Cisal, Alessandro Pico has explained - if account of the absolute peculiarity of the category formed from workers in continuous movement in the several areas of the globe holds and which must be in possession of psycho-physical integrity to be able to exercise their trade. Moreover, always to such care, a ramified organization exists that extends in all the ports of the world through conventions with the structures and the doctors of the place in order to assure the due sanitary assistance - visits, cures, participations, disembark, repatriations, etc - to the marine one sickened or which had an accident. To the current state the matter still is managed by the SASN, second logical correcting of centralization considered the characteristics of the service: with the beginning of the next year they will be the Regions to you must yourself some be occupied, it is unknown with which results not just for the sake of the structures under house or in Europe how much for those scattered in the several countries of the earth".

"To tell the truth - it has specified Piro - the passage to the Regions would have to be disciplined by means of regulations proposed from the interested ministries (Health, Economy and Finances), but from the reading of the first rough drafts of such action there is from doubting that to the health ministry they have comprised entirely, is under the substantial aspect that bureaucratic, which are the necessities in order to guarantee the sanitary protection to the marine ones. If the objective of such innovation, which unfortunately will dismantle a working structure, is that to diminish the expenses - it has concluded the representative of the union - with the system that is about to be adopted, that is with the transfer to the E regions therefore without some central organ of synthesis or control, the expenses most likely will be destined to increase and the service to get worse. To the face of the spending review".