Onda, “National Observatory on Women’s Health and Gender,” will be even closer to the territory and the female population. How? With the establishment of the Regional Antennae, it will be able to better capture the various problems and calls for action to address the stark unevenness still evident among different regional health care systems. The goal of the Antennae, in fact, is to disseminate, support and promote the Observatory’s initiatives on the ground and, at the same time, to collect regional instances by forwarding them to headquarters.
The antennas present in 10 regions
Antennae are currently being established in: Basilicata, Calabria, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Lazio, Lombardy, Piedmont, Sardinia, Tuscany, Trentino Alto-Adige and Veneto. “We have worked hard for this expansion”-comments Francesca Merzagora, president of Onda. Our Observatory is constantly evolving, it is dynamic, increasingly oriented toward gender-specific medicine, and we are continuing our efforts so that the Antennas go from being present in ten regions to the whole of Italy. In our opinion, the Regional Antennae are a very important support in pursuing institutional goals and promoting women’s health at all stages of their lives.”
“The Wave Antennas are in order of time the latest initiative of the Observatory for the gender health– adds Alberto Costa, vice president of Onda-and they wish to establish a structured and articulate form of ‘word of mouth,’ communicating valuable information directly to headquarters from the geographic areas in which they operate and, in turn, spreading national initiatives locally.” An important contribution, too, against the fake news that is spreading like wildfire in the highly sensitive and complex field of health.
