DI am waiting for 8 years, from 1 January 2025 the medically assisted reproduction techniques (PMA) entered the essential levels of assistance. What has changed for couples?
As the Italian Society of Human Reproduction (Siru), the concrete application of the PMA is uneven and fragmented. With differences in interpreting the rules or in the access requirements.
PMA, the regional differences weigh
In some regions the public centers are few and the waiting lists to access six treatments, paying the ticket, long, with «FOrtissimo mobility of infertile couples from the south to the north»Says the gynecologist Antonino Guglielmino, founder of Siru. “For approval fertilization, 26.5 percent of couples moves, for the heterologist 38.5: the one to be considered normal is 8 percent”.
Many regions do not take the same with the questionsthose to be taken for example, according to Siru, are Tuscany and Lombardy who provide performance with a good balance between public and affiliated private centers. “In the future to meet requests, public structures will have to be increased It is conventing private centers with the requirements for accreditation, also facilitating access to proximity structures such as consultors “concludes the Siru Presidency.
“If the care were really guaranteed to all infertile couples, the demand would increase up to 30 percent And this could help Italy overcome the current “demographic winter”. But without the strong commitment of the regions, the care of infertility remains a precluded right to thousands of couples ».
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