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Undersecretary Davide Faraone said Wednesday that around two
million Italians have paid bribes in the health field and around
10 million paid for examinations under the table.
"The health sector continues to be one of the worst-hit by
the virus of corruption," Faraone said at an event for the first
national day against corruption in health.
"Over two million Italians have paid bribes to receive
favours in the health field and 10 million have had specialist
examinations on the black market.
"The finance police uncovered fraud and the waste of
public health spending amounting to 806 million euros between
January 2014 and June 2015.
"We are fielding many initiatives to fight this plague.
Last year parliament approved the anti-corruption bill. In
addition to reinstating the crime of false accounting, we also
gave more powers to anti-corruption agency ANAC".
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