Crans-Montana, ship invoices to the injured “by mistake”: the Canton can pay | EUROtoday

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A bitter shock that provides to the ache that has lasted for nearly 4 months. To three of the households of the boys injured on New Year’s Eve in burning of Constellationa Crans-Montanahave been just lately delivered, in all probability by “mistake”, very salty invoices from the Sion Cantonal Hospital. Staggering quantities for a really brief hospitalization: in two instances simply over 17 thousand francs (equal to simply over 18 thousand euros), as much as 66,810 francs (73 thousand euros) for the final payment. At the underside, there’s a small word: «The bill should not be paid».

This is one more stumble in relations between Italy and Switzerland, attributable to an “error”, because it was outlined within the authorities corridors of the Canton of Valais, in all probability generated by a very zealous or distracted official. “The medical services of the Valais hospital are not paid for by the families”, wished to make clear the cantonal well being division, which studies on to the Valais president Mathias Reynard. The deadlock was resolved by a telephone name on Monday afternoon between Reynard himself and the Italian ambassador in Bern Gian Lorenzo Cornado: «The president of the Canton of Valais assured me that nothing is owed by the households to the hospitals and that healthcare prices might be borne completely by the Canton of Valais, and probably by the Swiss Confederation, and that nothing might be requested from the Italian State, as that they had introduced from the start», explains the diplomat.

“It’s clear that there’s no way anyone should pay a single euro for what happened,” provides the Lombardy Region Welfare Councilor Guido Bertolaso which represents the households within the Beloved Foundationborn in Sion to help the victims of the tragedy, by which 41 individuals died, together with six Italians, and 115 have been injured. If the difficulty has “cooled off”, a minimum of from a diplomatic perspective, there nonetheless stays a shadow of ambiguity within the administrative language of the Valais division, in response to which it’s as much as the LAMala Swiss construction that manages medical bills at a world degree, «decide with the Italian insurance coverage corporations (and/or the Italian worldwide connection construction), which insurance coverage takes care of which service».

Cornado and Reynard will meet once more in Martigny subsequent Friday 24 April to definitively resolve the “mixup” and take some steps ahead on the advanced compensation file. The households’ bitterness stays: the lawyer Domenico Radice speaks for it, defining the well being facility’s initiative as “inappropriate”: “Generally speaking”, he says, “we believe that the costs should be borne by the Swiss authorities, also considering the alleged public responsibilities that have emerged so far, and for this very reason the sending of the invoices could have been avoided”.