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Pierpaolo SileriThe Roman Deputy Minister of Health and oncologist, politician by chance, as he defined himself, has been attending Italian television for about a year. As the director of Libero pointed out, if the M5S inscription were not next to his name, no one would think that he is a grillino deputy. The pentastellato, unlike his peers, does not speak through slogans and has no difficulty in saying things as they are, even going against the government. Sileri also admitted that the executive did not prepare for the second wave of coronavirus. Before joining the movement, he earned much more from his work and it is unclear what prompted him to change.
Sileri and his choice
Sileri himself explained it during the interview with Libero: “In 2015 I was prevented from applying to a competition as an associate professor at the University of Tor Vergata, in Rome. I was vice-rector and in my department I had more scientific publications than all of them, but my place was destined for another. I appealed to the TAR and the rector in the institute’s parking lot promised me that if I withdrawn the appeal he would win me a chair as a professor. I refused and they made me understand that I was finished, even threatening to block competitions throughout Italy. So I told my story to the Honorable Paola Taverna, who asked a parliamentary question. Today I am in government and the rector is accused of attempted extortion and incitement to corruption ”. In 2017 he founded with Giuliano Grüner, the Transparency and Merit association, created precisely to eliminate nepotism.
Sileri said he never played on M5S and never signed up for the Rousseau platform. He made no secret of his right-wing sympathies, particularly towards the National Alliance, and his support for Fini when he ran for mayor of Rome. Although he has not been interested in politics for years. Then, to try a change, as many had thought: he tried to vote for the Rays in the Comunali. It was, therefore, Luigi Di Maio and Paola who proposed him the candidacy in a single-member constituency north of the capital, a difficult as well as a strong right-wing undertaking. He managed to obtain 94 thousand votes. And to the question with whom you have idea to reapply in the future, since it does not seem to have much in common with the pentastellati, it seems to have no doubts: “I will not reapply. I am a surgeon, I do not waste 25 years of sacrifice and profession. When I was informed of the appointment as deputy minister, I was in the operating room. It was the last surgery, because the law now prohibits me from using a scalpel, I never want to go back to the hospital. Imagine that I would have asked to be able to go there as a volunteer on Saturday morning, when I am free, but since I am in the government they prevented me. But on March 25, 2023, when this is all over, you will find me at San raffaele in Milan, where I won a competition in 2016 “. But isn’t there a certain doctor in San Raffaele, Professor Alberto Zangrillo, criticized by experts for being considered a denier? Okay, yes. Sileri, however, explained that the criticism of the San Raffaele anesthetist comes from people who do not understand. And about Zangrillo’s ruling that the virus is clinically dead: “He used an unhappy expression but many of those inside understood perfectly what he meant: that the virus was no longer reaching intensive care” .
Situation different from that of spring.
On the fact that now the virus seems to have run, Sileri explained that the situation is different from last spring. At that time, many infected died in their homes and the doctor arrived when the patient was already dead. Although now this is no longer the case.
Zangrillo’s words have been exploited in a certain sense, also due to the fact that there are rivalries between the various experts who seem to have used television for personal purposes on occasion. Sileri himself was accused of being too present in the broadcasts and neglecting his work. But he was quick to remind that surgeons can work up to 120 hours a week, including hospital, research and lessons, and that attending a talk show is minimal commitment.
As for why he decided to go to work at the San Raffaele in Milan, considered Berlusconi’s hospital, and therefore a grillini attack served on a silver platter, it is easy to say: it is an excellence in our country. It is enough to look at Sileri’s publications, his H index, which measures the value of scientists, and the mortality rates in their surgeries, to understand that it depends on the chosen hospital. Their ability “It is a question of discipline. I should have done thousands of interventions, but before each one I still study today. And when I drive home, I think about it: Did I do everything right? There is something I could have done better. Can complications arise? “. As he himself admitted, he does not enjoy the privileges of the caste and that as a doctor, before becoming a deputy minister, he earned more. “As chairman of the Health Commission, I unblocked the law allowing the investigation of bodies, accelerated the law on the cancer registry network, and much more. This is enough for me to feel that I have done my duty “.
Criticism of the government
Perhaps his strong sense of duty led him to criticize the government. Even when he went to China to retrieve Italian citizens, on February 2 and 14. It is not a controversial gesture but it is consistent with his thinking and his work as a doctor. “My son was only seven months old. When I returned one night, my wife looked at me and understood immediately. Covid was going crazy in the East and in Rome they had been arguing for days, and everything seemed very slow to me, I did not see an immediate result. I thought, I’ll go and take them away, so when I come back I’ll find them still sitting at the table deciding what to do. I’m an extremely practical guy. “ he said. There is something strange about how the government is dealing with the second wave. Meanwhile, the vice minister would like more transparency and also expand the table of the CTS. And then about the closures thrown by the last Dpcm, he doesn’t quite agree, also because “There are still many places in the ICU and the growth of hospitalized patients is not exponential. The number of positives is very high but most of them are not sick: we must distinguish and not create unnecessary terrorism. We are paralyzing a country that hopes to pass saliva tests. Inconceivable”. Yes, inconceivable.
Increase diagnostic capacity
Sileri seems to be very clear priority Right now. First, diagnostic capacity must be increased. Divide the population into three groups: low, medium, and high risk. Use the rapid antigen test for those with low and medium risk and clean only the third band. In this way, it would be possible to map 400 thousand people every day, without wasting swabs for subjects who are not close contacts and therefore are not at high risk. “It is absurd what we are witnessing, with thousands of people breaking into emergency rooms for symptoms similar to those of Covid, or endless lines to take a swab. Having more diagnoses, simpler than the swab and usable by general practitioners, in pharmacies or in the private sector and, why not, also in dental practices would help the system as a whole ” he claimed. It is not the number of tampons that are made that is wrong, but who they are made to. If a worker tests positive, swabs should be done to his closest colleagues, not the entire floor. For all others, a rapid or saliva antigen test would suffice. Lower cost and less waiting time to obtain the result.
The vaccine cure will come first
However, some hopes are extinguished about the vaccine: “It won’t be quick. It takes months to produce it, just like the flu. And we still don’t know how much it actually protects and what its side effects are. I think the drug will arrive before the prophylaxis “.
It is difficult for the expert to imagine a situation like the one experienced in spring. Instead, he foresees a further increase in infections, fortunately gradual in terms of intensive care places. What was needed, and still is, is unscrupulous use of diagnostics. Italian healthcare has been eaten up by “Politics, with non-meritocratic appointments, and here we return to the reason for my candidacy for Parliament. Corruption, to which we pay a bribe of eight billion a year. The cuts, too many and linear. THE lack of investment on the research. The reckless sanitary building: do you know the skeletons of the hospitals built and never opened in Calabria? “.
