Beppe Grillo, founder of the 5 Star Movement, has decided to share his experience of being admitted to the emergency room, which he refers to as a “small hospital” in Cecina, through an Instagram post. He discussed the challenges hospitals are facing during this time and expressed his appreciation for the medical staff after experiencing their work first-hand. As Grillo said: “I understand that working under these conditions can be very difficult for doctors and nurses.”
Beppe Grillo discharged from Cecina hospital thanks doctors and nurses on social media: “I love you”
Grillo: “In a mortuary room for more peace”
Beppe Grillo recounted his experience at the Cecina hospital in a video shot at his home in Genoa and posted on Instagram “I came out of that little hospital in Cecina with a very positive experience, in the sense that the emergency room, doctors, nurses, stretcher-bearers, I saw them struggling, working in a fantastic way. In a corridor where at 75 I was the youngest, there was also a centenarian among noises and alarms that were ringing: I understand that for doctors and nurses working under these conditions is very difficult. Then they found me a little room in medicine on the first floor to be more peaceful, it was the mortuary, that is, no one was dying, they told me why don't you go there so you'll be more peaceful? And I said yes. They did the tests, now I'm at home and I'm fine.”
Grillo: “We need to fight poverty”
Grillo, after having seen with his own eyes the conditions of the emergency rooms, reflects on how “inequalities” are the real problem of health. “When we talk about health we inevitably have to talk about society, environment, food, urban planning. Reducing poverty and improving society. The health of the poorest must reach the standard of the richest, to do this we need sociologists, anthropologists, architects, because everything is inside, there is energy, what we eat, how we move, the choices we make”.
The founder of the 5 Star Movement also added: “80% are patients of a general practitioner, then there is the fear of doctors, the excess of diagnostics. They do thousands of tests, because the patient wants them, but half of them are useless. Then there is the aging of the population: on average an elderly person consumes eight drugs a day, the last week of an elderly person's life costs the health system as much as their whole life”. Beppe Grillo believes it is necessary: “To separate health and healthcare. Health is politics, and the differentiation between rich and poor is the key to politics, we need to reform society to reform healthcare. It is convenient, not only from a human point of view, but also from an economic point of view, to bring the poor towards wealth, because the poor cannot take care of themselves, they get sick more and therefore weigh on the health system. We need to remove this great difference with a basic income, a job, a healthy environment. In health there is everything inside, the politics of society, that's where we need to intervene. Not starting to intervene on poverty is a crazy economic waste”.
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