(ANSA) - Rome, July 2 - Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin on
Thursday reached a long-awaited deal with Italy's regions on how
to distribute cuts to regional health funding.
She said the 2.35-billion-euro deal "will enable us to
make up for the lack of increase in funds without wrecking the
structure of the health pact".
The central government and regional ones have been
haggling for months over the cuts demanded by the 2015 budget.
Regional officials have said the cuts threatened the level
of services mandated under the Rome-regions health pact.
Lorenzin hailed the new package for avoiding the kind of
across-the-board cuts that have been the norm in the past.
Lorenzin agrees cuts with regions - update 2
Won't wreck health pact says minister