Coronavirus, doctors choke in Campania. Then the Region turns around: “But nobody says that the emergency is not under control”

Monday 5th October the Campania region sends a note in which the doctors, directors and hospital staff are “inhibited” from giving interviews without the authorization of theCrisis Unit. Furthermore, a single figure (from the Crisis Unit of the Campania Region) is established to interact with the press.

The decision was widely condemned by the Order of Journalists, FNSI and the Unitary Union of Journalists of Campania, who asked the president Vincenzo De Luca withdraw an act considered “unjustifiable”.

6th of october The Region through a press release specifies that it is not a joke and there is no limitation on the right to pressure. “But to guarantee – read the press release of October 6 – with the maximum transparency, objective news, not distorted and that it produces unjustified alarmism, and always responding to reality … it is the only Crisis Unit that can offer this guarantee, in truth and advantage of all information operators “.

October 7 The controversy continues and only at night comes a new press release from the Campania Region specifying that there is no impediment for health personnel to speak to the press. “Campania is the first region of Italy in terms of the number of infections and the centralization of communication on the management of the Covid emergency that we have witnessed in recent days is worrying – says the president of the Unitary Union of Journalists of Campania” Gerardo Ausiello – Already agreed interviews with doctors and directors with national broadcasts have been skipped, the company TgR Rai that since the beginning of the pandemic has provided the bulletin from inside the Cotugno Hospital in Naples was suddenly invited to leave ”.

Contacted by IlFattoQuotidiano.it, the coordinator of the Crisis Unit of the Campania Region Italo Giulivo It explains that in the note from which the controversy began, health personnel were not prevented from giving interviews, but rather asked not to make general judgments about the regional organization of the emergency and to limit themselves, if necessary, to counting critical issues exclusively from your hospital environment. . Unfortunately, this detail must have escaped everyone because in the following days all the scheduled interviews in the hospitals were canceled. “There was no will on our part to prevent doctors and managers from making statements – Giulivo explains – because we must not hide from what the reality of the data and critical issues that we know and admit is, but rather from here to count it as an emergency, in the that we had no more beds, it happens to us. One cannot give the impression that in Campania – Giulivo concludes – the situation is not under control. So we do not force the doctors not to speak, but we ask everyone to stop for a moment and report on the things that need to be communicated, not to control communication, but to ensure that there is data-driven communication and that gives a real picture of the situation at the regional level. If you want to make believe that the situation is not under control, it is incorrect and that is not the message we wanted to convey ”.

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