Calabrian health commissioner: “Should I have made plans for Covid? I didn’t know.” And Conte: “Go immediately”



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Saverio Cotticelli to Title V

Who would have been responsible for preparing the Covid plan in Calabria? The Rai3 Title V program investigates the issue, interviewing regional health commissioner Saverio Cotticelli. During the broadcast, the commissioner admitted that he did not know that the task of the plan would be in his charge.

The words sparked the reaction of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who said in a note: “The Calabrian health commissioner Saverio Cotticelli must be replaced with immediate effect. Even if the process of appointing the new commissioner foresees a highly articulated path, I want to sign the decree already in the next few hours: the Calabrians immediately deserve a new commissioner fully capable of facing the complex and demanding health challenge ”.

During the broadcast of Rai 3, to the journalist who asks why Calabria has become a red zone, Cotticelli responds: “I don’t know, the numbers don’t say that. The health emergency is everywhere, throughout Italy ”. The Title V correspondent reminds the commissioner that “Calabria today does not have a Covid plan,” and adds: “You are in charge of the Covid plan.” Cotticelli at first denies: “It’s not like that, I’ll explain it to you right away. I’m not the boss. They were wrong… They forgot that there were two regions of the police station, Calabria and Molise, so they forgot and gave the task to the president of the council ”.

The journalist continues by asking: “In June you realize that
there was no Covid plan and what does it do? “The commissioner’s response:” I ask the Ministry a question and say ‘who is going to make the Covid operational plan?’ “The journalist at that time asked to see the ministerial opinion and Cotticelli agreed.

From the other room the voice of the deputy María Crocco can be heard, who turns to the commissioner and says: “You have to finish it! When you do these things you have to be prepared ”. This is how Cotticelli discovers during the program that the task of the plan was his: he retrieves the correspondence, then returns to the journalist and admits “I am the boss” and then declares that he is about to make it happen: “next week is ready “. Then he realizes what happened and confesses to the envoy: “What do you want me to tell you? Anyway, tomorrow morning they’ll kick me out.

The operational plan for the health management of the Covid emergency was requested by the government with the entry into force of the Cura Italia decree law in March. On that occasion, the Council of Ministers launched a series of resources to strengthen the national health service.



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