Rainy day in Rome yesterday. In Piazza Montecitorio signs handwritten by the victims of infected blood transfusions, in the protest outside the House of Representatives for nearly a month, dripped red paint: "We are the forgotten victims of a massacre of State. Compensation for all, Istat Reassessment for everyone. " For writing these words were to them, the approximately 70 thousand have been infected by HIV, hepatitis B and C in our hospitals and local health authorities, through vaccines, blood transfusions and blood products, including the early 80's and 90's. In their last Budget of the Berlusconi government has denied the revaluation of Istat already meager monthly compensation of approximately € 500 for receiving recovering from illnesses, a revaluation that would allow them to have about € 200 more per month.
The so-called process of Naples against the alleged perpetrators of the massacre of blood should reopen soon, after more than 20 years of waiting. Among the suspects Duillo Poggiolini, then director general of Health, Marcucci, owner of the company that put on the market Marcucci plasma infected and non-controlled offshore created through a lawyer Mills in the Virgin Islands, the Padvore, and 14 other defendants . The charge for them was changed in 2007 by "negligent epidemic" to "aggravated multiple murder."
"At this, as well as the revaluation denied Istat, binds our protest these days - says Andrea, infected in a hospital in Genoa in 89 HIV, HCV and hepatitis B, which yesterday had to leave the garrison for an illness due to his illnesses - these charges, in fact, moving the prescription of crimes from 5 to 15 years. Except that today is still a ruling by the Supreme Court in January 2008 that the blinds at 5 years requirement. Because of this, 80% of us have seen him go into the causes limitation in recent months for compensation for mental and physical damage brought against the Ministry of Health. The Government had promised in October to an ad hoc decree, that would save all the requisite, but has not made the commitment and indeed has been missing for every comparison. Our diseases, however, should not be a statute of limitations, but mark every day of our closeness to death. Why do not we leave here, because we have nothing to lose. " THE
August 3, for the victims, came another cold shower: the Ministry of Health, in fact, for the few non-prescribed, proposed sums of money, divided in 15 years without interest. "Many of us have no such expectation of life - says Marcella, infected with hepatitis C for over 20 years, with a full-blown liver cancer that is leading to the death - the Ministry has also proposed for the occasional transfusion 65 000 € gross in 15 years, while for thalassemia and emofilitici infected with so-called life-saving drugs, which are the minority cases, € 400 thousand gross ever in 15 years. " How to tell a mother infected by a transfusion during a caesarean section has fewer rights to taking anticoagulants emofilitico a regular basis, even though they are both now have AIDS. "In the rest of Europe - concludes Andrea - the victims have already received compensation equal time for all and much higher than those offered to us without words of limitation. And the compensation for the sick are really commensurate with the cost of living. In the other countries do not have forced sick people like us to stand in the rain for their rights and the perpetrators have all been charged with murder. "
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