Regions ready to challenge waiting-lists decree - sources

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 13 - Italy's regional governments are ready to present a legal challenge to a decree passed by Premier Giorgia Meloni's government with measures seeking to cut national health system waiting lists if it is approved in its current form, sources said on Saturday.
    The regional governments are in charge of organizing public health care in Italy and they are concerned article 2 of the decree infringes on their powers, the sources said.
    This article enables central government to run checks regarding the waiting lists and then tell the regions to adopt solutions if problems are found, something which could also led to legal actions, the sources said. (ANSA).