Dario Trapani, Medical Oncologist at European Institute of Oncology, shared a AIOM|The Italian Association of Medical Oncology’s post on LinkedIn, adding:
“With AIOM and AIOM Giovani in previous editions we have dedicated deep and necessary attention to humanitarian disasters and their complex consequences on health and cancer care.
At the national AIOM, in Rome, we met with cancer control leaders from the Middle East region MENA, learning about the health and treatment priorities in a region of the world oppressed by the decades-long upheavals of the power struggle.
In AIOM young people in Florence we met oncologists who never stopped during the attacks on Ukraine, rebuilding their clinical wards in bunkers, facing the dark night of the energy crisis, and interacting with humanitarian workers active around the world, including MSF.
With the Giornate dell’Etica in SanServolo we met the institutions and organizations that deal with migrants and we learned that the Italian Health System SSN acts as an equalizer of access, creating the opportunities on which AIOM is committed to grafting the potential of an Association that looks at the problems of oncology, from the local to the globale, with a tangible discussion that included the World Health Organization,OMS, Emergency, Caritas, the representatives of the country’s cultural and religious leaders, to define a role and an action of AIOM towards oncological problems that involve everyone, often finding us disoriented.
With the latest report released by the UN on the issue of Gaza this week, in this case by the Special Investigative Commission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR, no one can remain silent, none of the Associations and none of the health workers, and AIOM, in fulfillment of its role as a national organization that looks at global issues, In the understanding of a comprehensive and inclusive action, it has recently released its official position, to protect all health workers and patients, with a pioneering spirit and a manifestation of solidarity – first among the cancer organizations in the world!”
Quoting AIOM|The Italian Association of Medical Oncology’s post:
“As AIOM, we have been denouncing the difficulty of cancer treatment in war contexts since 2024.
Today, even more, on the occasion of the AIOM Ethics Days dedicated to the end of life in oncology, we feel compelled to make our voice heard publicly for all health workers, patients, civilians and children who have been killed in Gaza for too long in the indifference of so many.
‘Healthocide’ is the term used by BMJ Global Health magazine to describe the systematic and deliberate devastation of the health system in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli army.
986 health workers killed, many detained without charges, most health facilities destroyed, including the only specialized cancer center in the Strip.
In Gaza, people die not only under bombs, but also because of treatments not received and diagnoses not carried out.”
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