Covid Italy, 600 thousand surgeries skipped in 2020 due to the pandemic

To recover them, says Sileri, “already allocated 500 million euros, I will strive to add more” Due to the Covid pandemic “for 2020 alone, over 600 thousand non-essential surgical interventions” have been postponed or canceled. “This is a huge problem, but all those involved are showing great commitment, starting with the government: 500 million euros have already been allocated, I will work to ensure that more are added.” This was stated by Undersecretary of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri, who spoke this morning at the workshop of the Italian Society of Obesity Surgery (Sicob) on laparoscopic bariatric surgery held at the National Library in Rome. “A surgeon – he said – must never stop learning, training and research are essential. For this reason, a theme I want to emphasize is simulation in surgery, which would allow constant training on surgical techniques. In the latest budget law, a fund was set up to strengthen the use of this training methodology in hospital healthcare companies and Irccs, which through the simulation of operational scenarios allows you to test the limits of the organizational and environmental system in which the staff Sanitary works on a daily basis, with evaluation and training objectives “.