The number of people for whom the Region paid for medical assistance exceeded the number of inhabitants of Calabria, equal to just over 2 million, until the verification carried out by the offices of the Health Department on the basis of data from the new registry introduced on the initiative of the councilor Doris Lo Moro. Yesterday, during a public demonstration, Lo Moro announced that the Region had paid reimbursements to general practitioners for several years for about 400,000 people who did not exist, because they were deceased, no longer resident in Calabria or erroneously counted several times. With a burden for the regional coffers of approx 30 million euros per year, considering that the cost of each patient is 30-60 euros per year.
