Switzerland is continuing to pay bills for the Crans-Montana victims. The Federal Social Insurance Office (FSIO), in an official statement, states that “the provisions on international mutual assistance in the area of benefits also apply to the victims of the fire.”
Doris Bianchi, director of the same office, reiterated this to the cameras of RSI, the Swiss Italian television network, and was picked up by Italian newspapers a few hours ago.
“I’m sorry for the invoices mistakenly sent to Italian families, but European agreements must be respected,” he said during a meeting with the Italian ambassador to Bern, Gian Lorenzo Cornado . “I expect the Italian Ministry of Health to pay the expenses of the children admitted to Swiss hospitals.” And “your Ministry of Health to send the hospitalization expenses of Swiss patients to Italy.”
Ambassador Cornado’s response was immediate : “If these are the agreements, then Italy will not avail itself of them: we will not bill the expenses of the two Swiss boys hospitalized by us, and we expect Bern to do the same.”
(Unioneonline)
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