Italy's oncologists said Friday that
some 1,103 cancer beds had been cut in the last 10 years and
there was a full-blown crisis on cancer wards across the
country.
Every day in Italy, approximately 1,000 new cancer diagnoses are
estimated and this number tends to increase by 1% year after
year, said the president of the Italian Association of Medical
Oncology (Aiom) Francesco Perrone on the occasion of the opening
of the 26th national congress.
"But the growth in demand for care clashes with a critical
reality: in 10 years, in fact, 1,103 public beds have been cut
in the Oncology departments (in 2012 there were 5,262, reduced
to 4,159 in 2022) and the number of oncologists is starting to
decrease at a national level, as is that of nurses; this is the
worrying picture," said Perrone.
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