Cancer registry, the Umbrian council eliminates the management of the university: the research group is dissolved. In the background, a round of nominations for the Lega

The League in Umbria removes log management from tumors all’University of Perugia and works to reassign him to a regional company, whose president (recently appointed) is also the head of a private company which works on the same record in Veneto. Region, the latter, from which the current Minister of Health comes “on loan,” Luca coletto, former greenish yellow government undersecretary of health. There is a political and nominal interweaving entirely within the Carroccio behind the uproar that is rising in the institution led by Donatella Tesei. At the beginning of the year, the regional council did not proceed to refinance the 180 thousand euros to be assigned to the university research group led by the professor Fabrizio Stracci, who has worked on the Perugia team since the registry was established in 1992. The non-renewal of the agreement, which expired in February, resulted in the dissolution of the working group, composed essentially of precarious researchers, who in the following months found employment in the private sector. Registry management could now end up in the hands of the regional company Digital umbria, Coletto, consulted by Ilfattoquotidiano.it, does not deny: “It is a possibility, the skills of the president are those and they are excellent.” But, he says, “our CEO will decide.”

Registration refinanced, but college is currently excluded
Meanwhile, under constant pressure from the opposition, taking into account P.S me M5 – Tesei’s board followed the announcements about the restart from the register. The last one, from Coletto, a few days ago: “In a short time,” he declared, “the board will transition phase with a scientific comparison with the interested parties to ensure the resumption of the strategic activities of the Cancer Registry, considered by this council a fundamental public health tool ”. the 16 of September Coletto obtained from his advice the refinancing from the registry, but not yet an appointment for the “restart” of the works. The University of Perugia, meanwhile, is now out of the game: “The working group currently it is loose – confirm a ilfattoquotidiano.it Professor Stracci – and I have no news of a restart of activities. Among other things, it would be difficult start all over againas researchers are no longer available and should train me new “.

The role of Fortunato Bianconi and his Ict4Life
As mentioned, Governor Tesei, in concert with Coletto, would like to assign the management of the registry to Digital umbria, an engineer from Montefalco was appointed to lead on July 20, Fortunato Bianconi, with a past in the research group coordinated by Stracci (with whom he still collaborates). The new president has participated in various initiatives of the Health forum of the League and he was a councilor at the right height a Montefalco, the same country that Tesei was mayor of. Above all, Bianconi is the the majority shareholder of the Ict4Life srl, a company with 10,000 euros of share capital that has created the site Internet of the Umbria registry and on September 12, 2017 obtained the same transfer (from 39,300 euros) of the Zero company of the Veneto Region. The possible assignment of the cancer registry to Umbria Digitale would therefore create a short circuit with respect to which the Service Management it would all end up in the hands of the professional league engineer. In the last few months at least two researchers of Stracci’s staff were hired at Bianconi’s Ict4Life. Bianconi, contacted several times by phone and via SMS from ilfattoquotidiano.it, He has not never answered.

Coletto: “The model is Veneto. Bianconi? Great skills “
Councilor Coletto, for her part, answers our questions by explaining how “the cancer registry was arrested in 2017“.” The supervision of the university will remain – says the former undersecretary – but the service must return to the head of the RegionAs in Veneto, there is no doubt about it. Digital Umbria? Our health director will decide ”. And about Bianconi: “He was part of the Stracci staff, he also lent a hand to start the registration in Veneto, the abilities are those and are ExcellentBut it is not the ‘skills’ that are in question, but rather, the opportunity of the operation. “Umbria Digitale has neither the staff nor the know how to manage the most important cancer registry in Italy ”, attacks Tommaso bori, regional leader of the Democratic Party and doctor, who has raised the problem since the beginning of the year, through public questions and interventions in the regional council. “If the intention of the meeting were to succeed, we would certainly have to turn to someone external company, a kind of privatization”, Points out the exponent dem 30 years. The idea goes immediately to Ict4Life, considered by many to be the only private company capable of managing the service outside of universities.

Steelworks of Terni and Nardi and Alto Tevere the special observers
The cancer registry, founded in 1992, has i data Relative to Medical records of tens of thousands of patients, analyzes the main Causes of death depending on the territories and evaluate the impact of environmental situations critical, including the presence of the industrial centers of the Narni Steelworks me Terni and contamination inUpper Tiber – with the oncological pathologies found in those territories. It must be said that over the years the cancer registry had registered a progressive reduction financing. About 500 thousand euro initials, with which a work group was paid well – between contract and temporary workers 15 peopleIn recent years, available funds have been reduced to 180 thousand euros, considered by Stracci “absolutely unacceptable“. Money with which they would hardly pay you 3 researchers me 2 college students. All this before a balance of Umbria’s health that reaches the 2 billion euros.