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To manage the pandemic making decisions quickly is not enough. It is also necessary that they are then implemented without slowness and with cumbersome routes. Here’s why, as he explains Pier luigi lopalco, professor of general and applied hygiene at the University of Pisa and new councilor for the Puglia region, “the extension of the state of emergency is certainly necessary to manage a situation that could get worse. You need to be able to respond quickly to ongoing challenges. Lowering your guard at this point would be truly unjustifiable audacity.
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Ultimately, in your opinion, is it appropriate for the government to continue on this path?
“Objectively, it may sound bad that the state of emergency lasts a long time, but if this possibility gives you administrative and legislative tools to speed up the response to an epidemic threat, it is used without ideological reasoning. Surely what we have to face is a response to an unusual situation: we must take into account the probability that cases of contagion will increase, leading the epidemic to a trend similar to that of France or Spain. But we must avoid this possibility. But if we don’t have the tools to act quickly to respond to a dangerous situation, the risks we face will be worse.
Don’t you think, then, that Parliament can be weakened?
“Absolutely not. I think that if the government decides to extend the state of emergency there is nothing wrong with that. In a situation where it is necessary to make quick decisions, buy equipment or recruit people, it is clear that this tool facilitates the response. We must not forget that the times of the ordinary administration are a bit tight when it comes to reacting with valid and quick actions. And anyway, a pandemic occurs once every hundred years, there is no risk for democracy if for a few months the The government is able to decide quickly on the emergencies to attend to. To lower our guard at this moment would, in effect, be unjustifiable audacity. “
Regarding the measures to be taken to protect health, do you think it would be advisable to have the funds for the Month?
“Of course, expansion policies are needed at the moment, especially after years of rigor, aimed above all at increasing efficiency. And this in healthcare until now meant, for example, having to discharge a patient early. But if I do, I have to give him the opportunity to have structures in the area that can follow him on his way. And if we want to reduce undue hospitalizations, it is not simply a matter of cutting the beds, but of creating alternative structures in the area that can respond to health needs.
The pandemic has basically exposed every loophole in the healthcare system.
“That is precisely why it is now essential to improve the entire hospital productivity machine. But to do this, investments are needed. In some areas of Italy, for example, funds are needed for the construction of hospitals. There are some hospitals that are not worthy of the name. Citizens have the right to a respectable health care, and on the other hand we know that it is not guaranteed in the national territory in the same way from North to South. The strengthening of local medicine should not be a slogan, but rather invest in structures, men and means that can give answers to the patient even outside the hospital. If we want to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the system, we must invest and to invest it is clear that an indebted country like Italy must be able to have financing opportunities that can be like fresh blood ”.
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