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“We will not use the pandemic by the false transformations of hospital vocations and the reorganization of the rooms. Perhaps there will be a need for major changes in healthcare, but certainly not on the basis of tricks done at this dramatic moment. This I think is below the threshold of suspicion, It is offensive“Words spoken by Giovanni toti at the end of the extraordinary regional council on November 13, entirely dedicated to the emergency COVID-19. A stranger unclaimed excusesays who was there, apparently unrelated to the ongoing debate. But actually totally explainable, if we take into account that just three days before – in one of the first acts of the new legislature – the giunta Toti-bis gave a compact authorization to dismantle another piece of public health Ligurian. We are talking about resolution 912 of November 10 that authorizes ASL 4 to “proceed to the cancellation of unavailable assets, with the consequent registration in available assets, of the part of theRapallo Hospital on the second floor of the same, for a total area of 4,145 square meters and a maximum capacity of 53 places“And this in order to” implement the model of a lease with a restricted destination (…) yet third in possession of the requirements established by law and the necessary change of intended use “.
In conclusion, a whole floor (of three) of Our Lady of Montallegro in Rapallo, 4 thousand square meters and 53 places (out of a total of 120), tendered to entrust the management to a private partner. Only that “Spurious transformation” that Toti, super president with responsibility for health care for a month, indignantly denied that he wanted to implement. The municipal hospital, opened in 2010 and at a cost 44 million of public money, it is the classic example of a cathedral in the desert: despite the state-of-the-art equipment, a lack of personnel and investment has ensured that the structure remains chronically underused. In fact, the second floor, the one to be privatized, which should house orthopedic and cardiac surgery beds, has always been empty. Thus, in the resolution, the board has a good game in underlining that the complex is “oversized compared to the current management possibilities of the Company”, which creates a “Criticality of management”, which can be resolved by renting the remaining spaces by signing a lease.
On the other hand, Toti had explicitly placed, among the objectives of his government, the privatization of at least 20% of the health supply regional. The sprint to the finish line came last year, with the awarding of the Albenga me Cairo Montenotte (Savona) inGaleazzi Institute of Milan, and that of Bordighera (Imperia) to Maria Cecilia Hospital by Ravenna. The project launched for Rapallo, therefore, is only the last on the list. But it collides much more in the “dramatic moment” crossed by the Ligurian health, with the San Martino of Genoa forced to install a field hospital in the square in front of the entrance and hundreds of Covid patients transferred to nursing homes in the capital.
And right on the second floor of the Rapallo hospital, Toti announced several times that 76 new beds must be created for the weekend to decongest the Genoese structures, even if the necessary staff has not yet been found, by his own admission. “Right now nothing is ready – denounces the group leader M5S in the region Fabio Tosi -, the second floor is closed and immaculate like many years ago, ready to be sold to individuals, despite the public health that has given so much and continues to give in the emergency. Thought I’d find some work in progress, but it’s cosmic nothingness. Citizens cannot be fooled at such a time ”.
Meanwhile, the opposition announces a battle against the privatization plan. P.S and Movimento 5 Stelle have presented two separate questions to the board: Democrats ask to suspend the procedure pending the adoption of the new regional health plan, which it will have to “rethink deeply, in light of the Covid emergency and the critical issues that have emerged, the complex of the socio-health network ”, and stigmatize the lack of transparency of the governor.” Toti described as ‘offensive’ the accusation of wanting to privatize the health in secret, but in an entire council dedicated to Covid did not even feel the need to bring up the subject, “attacks the group leader Luca garibaldi. “This, yes, is an offensive attitude. And especially in this historical period, it must be truly consistent with the commitments made in the Regional Council. For this reason, I invite the President to immediately suspend the privatization attempt ”.
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