“De Luca’s bottle was mine.” The surgeon at the Cotugno hospital speaks, first on the list of “reserves” excluded from Vaccine Day

Luigi ricciardelliThe 51-year-old has worked as a surgeon at the hospital for 13 years. Cotugno, a symbolic place of the fight against Covid-19 in Campania and vaccination system for the entire Colli hospital. According to reports The morning, the doctor last Sunday, the day of Vaccine day, was excluded from vaccination and returned home as the first on the list of “Bookings“: Your dose, therefore, could have gone to the governor Vincenzo De Luca, who was not expected to participate in the first phase of the vaccination campaign. “But – he declares Weather in Ricciardelli to the newspaper, I do not make it a personal matter ”.

The dose before De Luca had to be “mine or another colleague in line or a nurse working on the front line,” says the surgeon, the first to operate on a Covid-affected patient at the CTO during the first wave. “De Luca has a strong personality, he says Weather in Ricciardelli Alabama morning -. Your adherence to the campaign may be a signal: but who did you give the example, in this case? Doctors and nurses? “.

According to the surgeon, the president of the Campania region would not be the only one to have had priority over the vaccine “with a different criterion from the first line.” Some health workers were also overlooked administrative managers and employees. “I arrived at 11 and stayed until 1: I counted 4 or 5 – says the surgeon to the morning -. Let me be clear: they also have the right to the ampoule, in my opinion, in the second round, since they do not have direct contact with the sick ”. Weather in Ricciardelli, as company secretary of Fesmed, the federation of executive doctors, says it is ready to raise the case: “I intend to write a note to the hospital management” from the Colli company.