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He submitted his resignation this morning, but the “dismissal” had been communicated directly to him by the prime minister. Giuseppe Conte. “The health commissioner in Calabria Saverio Cotticelli it must be replaced with immediate effect. Even if the process of appointing the new commissioner foresees a very articulated path, I want to sign the decree already in the next few hours. “And the Ministry of Health made it known that” the appointment of the new commissioner for Calabria is already planned in the next few hours ” .
Appointed by the greenish-yellow government, the general who had been entrusted with the task of bringing order to the chaos of Calabrian health receives an abrupt rejection, a few hours after a television appearance in which he showed that he knew little or nothing about the sector that I should have had. govern. “Calabrians – reads a press release from the prime minister – immediately deserve a new commissioner fully capable of facing the complex and demanding health challenge.” Before him, the minister of the South had intervened, Beppe Provenzano, who anticipated on Facebook: “The current Calabrian Health Commissioner cannot remain in office for another minute. The Government will initiate the new appointment, on the basis of the new Commissioner decided in the CdM.”
To overflow the pot of a relationship that has been at odds for some time, the statements by Cotticelli, who to the microphones of the Rai3 Title V broadcast said that there were no numbers worrying enough to include Calabria among the red zones, despite not even having a clue of the real intensive care settings in the region’s hospitals. No more than 113, according to the president of the Anesthesiologists and Resuscitators of Calabria, Domenico Minniti, an undetermined number according to Cotticelli, who must contact his deputy, María Crocco, and an usher by chance there in the office to risk a 161 number. Figures that even collide with the 152 that the Region has recently communicated in the control room , identify among the 21 parameters to classify the alert level. But the most serious “accusation” against the general is the obvious blunder in the Covid plan, for which he “discovered” that he was responsible only by answering the journalist’s questions, also forgetting that he had approved the reorganization plan – in addition, it was endorsed by the Region in summer and co-financed by a Council resolution of November 2, but which never did anything to make it go from paper to reality.
Actually, and this is one of the reasons that he had disagreed with the ministry for a long time, Cotticelli has long been outdone by the commissioner. Bows, which on October 19 identified the provincial health companies and hospitals as the executing agency of the reorganization plan of the hospital network in the face of the Covid emergency. Translation, in seven days the structures of local commissioners had to transmit to Rome the operational planning of the interventions to adapt the structures to the directives issued by the Ministry of Roberto Speranza and they have been identified as responsible not only for the construction itself, but also for the purchase of medical equipment and means of transport – 50 Covid ambulances – foreseen by the reorganization plan. This is the last act of force that was necessary to bring order to the chaos of Calabrian healthcare, commissioned for 13 years because it was burdened with debt, infiltrated by clans and unable to respect minimum levels of care. A labyrinth, even more complex due to the emergency measures dictated in the early stages of the pandemic, which identified the Region as the executing agency for the urgent purchase of equipment, PPE and ventilators, as well as the hiring to integrate non-governmental departments. manned. .
