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Subject: Italy’s experience during COVID-19 and the limits of privatisation
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*Dear* Mario,
We are extremely glad to release and share with you our new brief on
Italy’s experience during Covid-19. This publication shows the desastrous
consequences of healthcare privatisation in the country, by which we call
on all countries to review their approach to healthcare systems.
It draws on the exemplary case of Lombardy, which quickly became the
archetype of a failed response to the pandemic as a direct result of the
high level of privatisation of healthcare.
*The first outbreak of COVID-19 in Europe was detected in the Italian town
of Codogno, Lombardy, on 21st February 2020. The region quickly became the
archetype of a failed response to the pandemic. Infected patients
overcrowded hospitals, multiplying the spread of the virus. The scenario
resembled a conflict zone, with military trucks managing bodies and
funerals without the bereaved. Frontline healthcare workers at public
hospitals were left inadequately protected in war-like triages. Meanwhile,
the regional government paid private care homes to host COVID-19 patients,
spreading the virus amongst the vulnerable elderly. *
By comparing and contrasting the case of Lombardy to the neighbouring
region of Veneto, which registered the first cases in the same month but
fared significantly better in terms of health outcomes, GI-ESCR explains
its this brief how Lombardy’s poor health-policy response to the pandemic
was likely due to its high level of healthcare privatisation.
*Lessons to be learnt: *
• *Privatised and commercialised healthcare systems *are less effective in
responding to crises such as a pandemic, and could put at risk *the health
and lives* of the population they serve.
• States must ensure that their *healthcare systems* are built on *a
strong, quality, coherently regulated non-commercial sector. *Any
commercial private actor may only supplement and not supplant the public
and non-commercial actors.
• Commercialisation of healthcare, as it happened in Lombardy, could
constitute *a violation of States’ human rights obligations *enshrined in
the Constitution and national law as well as in international human rights
treaties ratified by the country.
• *Human rights monitoring bodies*, such as the United Nations human rights
treaty bodies, should also play a more active role in assessing whether
States’ health systems, including potential marketisation reforms, comply
with their human rights obligations, in particular in the context of the
pandemic. International development actors, including international and
philanthropic organisations, should focus their efforts on supporting*
strong public healthcare and stop the promotion of market approaches. *This
will be particularly critical to respond to future crises that are likely
emerge from the ecological breakdown.
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