“Ridiculous claims”, “from the mayor’s mental confusion”

Scavuzzo calls, Gallera responds, Sala fights back, and Gallera responds. The crossfire continues, with strong tones, between the municipality of Milan and the Lombardy region.

The reason for the fight is always the same: Pirellone’s alleged delays in obtaining the doses for the influenza vaccination campaign, which is more necessary than ever in the midst of a covid emergency.

“From Gallera I don’t feel protected”

The confrontation was rekindled on Sunday morning by the mayor of Milan, Beppe Sala, who on the sidelines of the local police party reserved little sweet words for the Lombard welfare councilor. Gallera’s claims border on ridiculous, in fact they are ridiculous. Whoever has been involved in politics for many years without anyone noticing does so, when he had media visibility, he thought of running for mayor in the middle of a pandemic, “attacked the mayor.

And again: “From Gallera I don’t feel protected as a Lombard citizen in his role. Let’s go to the bottom – added the mayor -, and I would like them to refute my affirmation, that is, at this moment the Lombard health system is telling the doctors of the private agreement that they have to get by with the vaccines. “So, always letter and Sala music: “Please refute my assertion, because if so I would remind you that we called you heroes only a few months ago and now we tell you to fix yourself with vaccines. So let’s see how they fared in the competitions. , we are going to see deserted vaccination contests, that something is absolutely wrong is true. So we are not doing politics, if I wanted to campaign I would have nominated myself again. The issue – he concluded – is that we are thinking about the health of the Lombards and the situation must remain under control “.

“From Sala’s disturbing mental confusion”

By return of post, via Facebook, here is Gallera’s reply. “Chilling,” wrote the councilor for Social Welfare in capital letters. “Deputy Mayor Scavuzzo and Mayor Sala want to give vaccines to healthy municipal employees, keeping them away from the elderly, cancer patients and pregnant women and all this to obtain their consent for municipal elections. next year. I consider it an absolute shame to campaign for the health of the most vulnerable. Unmasked, with general disapproval, the electoral move, Mayor Sala in an obvious lack of oxygen and today the arguments have not found better, to try to cover the clamorous folly, which insults me with crudeness and vulgarity, in addition to making totally baseless statements, a sign of a disturbing mental confusion ”.

“All general practitioners have been involved by Ats in the influenza vaccination campaign and in fact, I take this opportunity to thank them for their willingness to vaccinate in their own offices, where the logistical conditions exist to do so, or in the places identified and made available to the Lombard mayors Regarding the insults to the undersigned, with great humility I proudly claim my many years in the service of my city and my region, always thanks to the trust and consent of thousands of Milanese and Lombard. that in 2018 I was the most voted of all the parties in Milan – Gallera stressed -. My work and that of the Lombardy Region in the greatest post-war pandemic that devastated our region as the first area of ​​the Western world will be judged by history and of voters, the truth is that this dramatic moment has brought out the absolute evanescence and inconsistency of Mayor Sala who will be remembered by the t-shirts “Milano does not stop”, for the snacks at the Navigli while the intensive care unit was being treated and for having sent the urban vigli on vacation during the confinement “, councilor j’accuse.

“I understand that seeing his image as a man of action and success collapse is very painful, to the point of deciding not to run again for fear of losing the elections, but at a time that continues to be critical and delicate for the health of our fellow citizens, Constructive institutional collaboration. However – Gallera concluded – it cannot be expected of those who in life have never acted with a spirit of service but out of vanity and personal ambition ”.

The Clash of the Scavuzzo Gallera

On Saturday Deputy Mayor Anna Scavuzzo and Gallera himself entered the ring. The number two of the Palazzo Marino had thought of opening the exchange, accusing the Lombardy region of not wanting to give the municipality the “promised” doses of vaccine for employees.

“Now the Region even writes to the Municipality of Milan to proceed with the private structures for contracting, as if it did not know that the Regions have had priority for months and that the real problem is that the Lombardy Region is too late, struggling to find in the market coverage for high-risk categories by age and pathology, and much less for the rest of the population. Criticality already reported by general practitioners and pediatricians and confirmed by pharmacists, “announced Scavuzzo.

“The Municipality had received all the guarantees two days ago: vaccines for municipal employees, useful not only for them, but also for all users of the services.” A very important contribution, “they had defined. We have been working for a long time to raise awareness among workers; the Municipality has made available spaces to increase vaccination points; We have offered a communication campaign and we have decided to invest resources to promote health among employees. But today they tell us to communicate with the private market, because the Region is not capable of fulfilling the commitments assumed ”, the deputy mayor had written, obviously upset.

Of another opinion, of course, Gallera. “It is really sad that the deputy mayor of Milan is bending her institutional position to an unjustified and instrumental political controversy – he said -. The Lombardy Region will cover free, like all other Regions, the target groups of the population established by the Ministry with the flu shot. ” della Salute, “replied the commissioner.