“I worked with him. Use health only for power” – Libero Quotidiano

Dear manager Senaldi, I’m from Campania, Salerno, I’m a doctor pediatrician who worked in the hospital and university in my city, I have been councilor with the responsibility of Health, the Honorable Mayor Vincenzo De Luca, for two terms. I can say with certainty that no empathy characterized De Luca’s action regarding Public health, if not the political occupation of positions in the sector (senior and non-executive), as indeed all political forces did and do, depending on their electoral weight. That’s it, and we must say it frankly. In Campania The ineffectiveness of public sanitary facilities, although there are some excellence to which all our respect goes, is quite evident and if lameness, in normal times, can be balanced with crutches, in times of COVID-19 everything falls apart. President De Luca’s concern is therefore legitimate, and yet it is fair to ask: where was he when the disaster in Campania was widely expected, from the health and economic aspects? The president of the Campania regional council did not realize that after so many years of inefficiencies – for God’s sake, not all attributable to him – he had to energetically ask the “friendly government” to strengthen the hospital staff, the beds, local medicine, intensive care and subintensive.

It would appear that such requests to National government They have been carried out, but the calls for hiring health and para-health personnel were not approved until the first week of October; and there are still a hundred left in our hospitals intensive therapy than those that had to be activated. Citizens cannot always be made to pay for the waste and inefficiencies of a system that should be the pride of any good administration. What is the use of yelling, showing a CT scan of a sick person, asking for more restrictions, the army in the streets, the policemanJust because the fear that the Campania health system does not have now takes hold of the conscience, like the loss of consent? It is absolutely true that the Campania region receives lower healthcare fees than others regions, and that the criteria for the allocation of funds are incorrect, but prioritizing and choosing where to direct these funds is the task of regional planning.

Thus, “earn cash” and meeting citizens’ demand for health remains the main objective. This has not been and is not! A government totally incapable of managing this epidemic with serious repercussions in all Italian regions creates the conditions for a “do it yourself” that is the most tragic that can happen to the nation. So why be surprised if the patience of citizens is running out? Why want to give “political” connotations to one popular protest which, however violent, has its good reasons? The title you gave me the other day seemed very relevant in this regard. Free, “The Neapolitans are right” The disaster begins from afar and the epidemic blows into the fire and fuels the flames of dissent that can become uncontrollable. Yet in our daily lives tragedyIn the suffering of hundreds of people whose right to many health services has been robbed for some time, there has never been a word of apology, a gesture of humility, that could have established “New agreement” between power and citizen and perhaps make new sacrifices more acceptable.