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The Governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca repeats it: “In Campania we have performed a miracle”. Images of lines of cars with patients awaiting hospitalization and tampons, of the elderly man who died in a bathroom at the Cardarelli hospital in Naples, of crowded wards, appear to contradict the sheriff’s narrative. But on what did De Luca build the false miracle of Campania?
Three pillars: gag to the press, loyalty in command posts (to control the dissemination of news about the advance of the pandemic) and rivers of money to private health. Three pillars begin to wobble. The governor’s first step, with the outbreak of the pandemic, was the suspension of all relations with the media and the press. In practice, the governor canceled the press conferences. A movement to escape the (uncomfortable) questions of journalists. The only truth comes from the governor’s weekly monologues on his Facebook page. It is the only source of information. To make the gag impenetrable, in late September, the Campania region issued a circular imposing a ban on ASL managers from communicating data and news about the coronavirus. Second bet: the loyalists placed at the command points of the emergency management chain. Roberta Santaniello, engineer and former member of the board president’s staff, is the lynchpin of the Crisis Unit of the Campania Region: from there the data on the pandemic begin. Then there is Enrico Coscioni, the governor’s health consultant, sent to head Agenas, the national agency for regional health services: it is the body that certifies, with the control room, the coronavirus data that arrive. from Campania. Another man of the governor is Ciro Verdoliva, general manager of ASL Napoli: the health company that monitors the largest hospitals in the region. Third movement: a river of money has reached the coffers of private structures. Both in the first wave and these days, the Campania Region has requisitioned beds in private clinics: the regional fund pays 1000 euros per bed even in case of non-use. But now, with the second wave, the Campania miracle runs the risk of becoming a sensational bluff. Deluchian’s narrative contradicts itself daily as health collapses.
In recent days, Health Minister Roberto Salute sent a group of inspectors to verify the real effectiveness of the anti-covid plan. In the final report, which later determined the Region’s transition from the yellow to the red zone, according to La Repubblica, two critical points are identified: the non-existence of a territorial assistance area and the lack of programming. Meanwhile, the number of positives continues to increase: yesterday 4,079 new cases of coronavirus infection. Of these, 346 are symptomatic patients, while 3,643 are asymptomatic. But the doctors’ alarm worries: “We bring blankets to patients who are waiting in their car to enter the hospital,” warns Elio Manzillo, infectious disease specialist at the Cotugno hospital in Naples. Now it is difficult to find an area of the Region that is not suffering.
