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Use of health only to increase power. All to the detriment of the citizens forced to make new sacrifices due to the insufficiency of the political action of the Region and the government.
This is the harsh accusation made in particular against the President of Campania, Vincenzo De Luca, by a person who is familiar with the methods of what many call the “sheriff.” The strong blow against the governor comes from a pediatrician de Salerno who worked in the hospital and at the university in her city and, above all not to underestimate, was a municipal councilor with responsibility for health for two terms during the De Luca administration. By his courageous outburst, the doctor decided to write a letter, published on Free every day, to Pietro Senaldi in which he tells what lies behind the actions of the Governor of Campania in matters of public health.
“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 (top and not), as did and do all political forces, depending on their electoral weight “, the doctor began who pointed out that “In Campania the inefficiency of public health facilities, even if there are some excellences 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 collapses “.
The author of the letter, also referring to the current situation in the Region, wonders where De Luca was. “When was the disaster widely expected in Campania, from the health and economic aspects?” According to the doctor, the president of the Campania regional council did not realize that after many years of inefficiencies Not everything attributable to him had to energetically ask the ‘friendly government’ to strengthen hospital staff, beds, local medicine, intensive and sub-intensive therapies ”. The issue is sensitive given the increase in Covid cases in the Region. The same author of the letter explains that such requests to the national government should have been made but “me notices for the hiring of health and para-health personnel, they were only approved in the first week of October; The call in our hospitals still lacks a hundred intensive therapies that had to be activated ”.
A delay that in the time of coronavirus is alarming and could create more problems for Campania. “You cannot always make citizens pay,” he continued. “The waste and inefficiencies of a system that should represent the pride of all good administration.” The doctor harshly criticizes De Luca’s attitudes, perhaps dictated by a political calculation: “What’s the point of yelling, showing the Tac of a sick person, ask for more restrictions, the army in the streets, the police, only so that the fear that the Campania health system does not have now seizes consciousness, such as loss of consent? “.
“It’s absolutely true- the pediatrician specified– that the Campania region receives lower percentages of health than other regions, and that the criteria for the allocation of funds are incorrect, but setting priorities and choosing where to direct these funds is the task of regional planning. Therefore, “getting cash” and meeting citizens’ demand for health remains the main objective. This has not been and is not! “. Then the attack on the government led by Giuseppe Conte “tTotally unable to handle this epidemic With serious repercussions in all Italian regions, it creates the conditions for a “do it yourself”, which is the most tragic thing that can happen to the nation “. For this, the doctor admits, “Why be surprised if the patience of citizens is running out? Why want to give” political “connotations to a popular protest that, however violent, has good reasons?”
Finally, the pediatrician declares to have appreciated the title of Libero “The Neapolitans are right” because “the disaster begins from afar and the epidemic burns and fuels the flames of dissent that can become uncontrollable. However, in our daily tragedy, in the suffering of hundreds of people who have long denied the right to many health services, there has never been a word of apology, a gesture of humility, which could have established a “new pact “between power and citizen and perhaps make new sacrifices more acceptable”. A letter, this one that will provoke discussion and that, perhaps, could mean a change of course for De Luca. Difficult but in life nothing can be excluded.
