€900mn for health in budget totally insufficient - GIMBE

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 16 - The 900 million euro increase the government has earmarked for the health service in the 2025 budget is "wholly insufficient", health research group GIMBE said Wednesday.
    "The increase of only 900 million euros for 2025 is completely insufficient to address the urgent needs of a red-code NHS, as well as to support the reforms that have been launched, in particular the one on waiting lists", GIMBE President Nino Cartabellotta told ANSA.
    "Despite (Health) Minister (Orazio) Schillaci's commendable commitment to increasing funding for public health, the data that emerged from the press conference on the 2025 Budget Law clearly show that the Ministry of Health can now be considered 'without portfolio'", he said. (ANSA).