[ad_1]
After the hard attack on the head of his department, Pierpaolo Sileri increases the dose. The question that makes the Ministry of Health tremble is still in the sights of the Vice Minister: the lack of updating of the pandemic plan for the coronavirus. But this time, denying being in disagreement with Minister Roberto Speranza: “What a fight, we met for a few minutes and I explained my doubts about the pandemic”, he takes it out on those he defines as the “mini ministers”. “, the ministry technicians.” Sometimes there are different points of view and in the past I had complained about not receiving the minutes. But I get along perfectly with him and with Sandra Zampa. The problem is the ministers. “
“The politician gives the direction, but the engine is the technicians. It seems to me that there is a bad habit for which they say: you pass, but we stay. There are people who do not respond to reporters, who prefer to go eat carbonara instead of read the pandemic plans and explain, “thunders Pierpaolo Sileri, Interviewed by Corriere della Sera. Those directly responsible would be the three directors of the Ministry’s Prevention department who succeeded each other without updating the pandemic plan one iota: Giuseppe Ruocco, Ranieri Guerra and Claudio Damario. And, the deputy minister puts particular pressure on the first of the three. “The only one left in the ministry is Ruocco and that is why I ask him to resign and apologize.”
Then, with the excuses presented by Ranieri War shorten. “War is also good,” says Sileri-, but let’s not kid ourselves, let’s not play with words. That plan dates from 2006 and had to be updated. ” While for the former director of Prevention, the 2006 plan was against influenza pandemics and therefore it was not necessary to update it, because one could not be made for an unknown virus.
Not only. For Guerra, blocking the update also meant changing the guidelines of thewho. Sorry to be denied by the vice minister. “No, they had already changed it seven years ago. That floor does not have bibliographic entries, it has empty tables. When I say that it had to be updated, I say that there should not have been a dead letter in a drawer. It had to communicate, exercises, checks, follow-up , identification a chain of command. Nothing in 14 years. ” An unforgivable “carelessness” and unforgivable carelessness on the part of the technicians that Sileri, if it were up to him, would have already punished with expulsion from the ministry. The problem, however, is that “there is always an excuse” that saves ministers and hides the dust under the rug, as in the case of the Zambon WHO report. Made to disappear unjustifiably according to the deputy minister: “There was constructive criticism, even some praise. When you go to the mechanic, do you want your car problems to be hidden from you or reported?”
