There is a new dispute in the minefield of healthcare . Everything revolves around the costs of oncology drugs, which in Sardinia "absorb 77.1%" of the total budget provided by law . Translated, to use the analysis of the Region, on the Island there is a problem of economic "sustainability", for which Armando Bartolazzi has proposed a "cure" . "Some therapies - the councilor relaunched, referring above all to innovative drugs - cannot be given to eighty-year-old patients and I say this even though I am approaching that age myself".
The imbalance in costs in cancer treatments emerged on Thursday, at the Federsanità conference where Bartolazzi presented the new Oncology Network . And yesterday, when it was clear that the oncologist-politician's position would spark controversy, Bartolazzi's entourage clarified that "unfortunately there are no funds to provide certain drugs on a mass scale", so "the choice to make - they added - is to focus more and more decisively on prevention". However, unions and patient associations had already written down their indignation for "this unacceptable attempt to establish an end of life on a financial basis".
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