Opinions on the Italian national health care post-COVID crisis 2020, by macro-region
Residents of the North-East seemed to be the most content with the current state of their public health system. 30 percent of them believed the system stood up to the COVID-19 challenge and the percentage of respondents who declared the need for increased hospital capacity and modernization was lower than in the other macro-regions. People from Sicily and Sardinia were the most concerned with the state of hospitals, with 59 percent of respondents asserting the government should strengthen their capacity. In the North-West, the Italian macro-region with the highest number of casualties due to COVID-19, as much as 17 percent of the respondents believed the national health care did not stand up to the challenge. For residents of the Center, very pressing issues were the allocation of additional funds to public health (57 percent) and higher salaries to the medical staff (30 percent).