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September 27, 2021 The Pope returns to launch an appeal so that "there is always a free health system" and in countries that have it, "like Italy and other countries, do not lose it", "on the contrary it would only reach those who can pay ", only they" will have the right to health ". Free and accessible health care "helps overcome inequalities".
While Bergoglio adds "In many countries there is what I call 'hidden euthanasia', for which medicines are expensive and are given half of them and this means shortening the life of the elderly. With this we deny hope".
Pope Francis said this when he received in audience the participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life, which takes place from 27 to 29 September on the theme 'Public health in a global perspective.
Pandemic, Bioethics, Future '.
"Catholic hospitals cannot afford to take the waste road", concludes the pontiff.