LAMEZIA TERME Gerardo Mancuso, medical director of the ASP of Catanzaro, is the new national vice president of the Italian Society of Internal Medicine, the oldest and most prestigious Italian scientific society which has about 4 thousand university and hospital internal medicine specialists. Gerardo Mancuso specialized in Internal Medicine with honors, is a student of Prof. Pier Luigi Mattioli at the Chair of Internal Medicine of the University of Catanzaro where he has taught Clinical Methodology and has been involved in clinical activities. He has been Adjunct Professor of the teachings of Rheumatology, Cardiology, Internal Medicine and is the author of over 100 scientific publications. He has held many positions in scientific societies of Internal Medicine, Atherosclerosis. He is President of one of the most important training events in the sector, the Calabrian Internistic Days, this year has reached its nineteenth edition, he is the author and speaker of many Regional and National training initiatives. In 2001 he won the competition for the Director of the Internal Medicine Complex Operating Unit of the Lamezia Terme Hospital where he currently serves. The Department was cited in 2003 by the Ministry of Health as a Reference Center for the Treatment of Rheumatic Diseases, in 2010 by the Ministry of Health as an important department for the treatment of Stroke and by the Commissioner of the Return Plan in 2017 as the best Department of Medicine of the region and among the 10 departments of all specialties of the hospital network for clinical and economic impact. The Department is also mentioned in Italy as one of the few in possession of the Sub Intensive Internistica with 4 beds equipped with monitoring technology and dedicated equipment.
“A change of pace is needed”
«Medical science – said Mancuso – has made enormous steps in the last twenty years, obtaining the result of having increased the average life span of populations in industrialized countries. This result is due to the best treatments available, to the technology that has refined diagnostics and also to a more appropriate organizational model of disease management. However, the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has brought out inconsistencies and discrepancies that have brought even the most performing systems to their knees. Countries such as England, Germany, but also the regions of Northern Italy, have suddenly shown that the health system is vulnerable and needs continuous adaptations in relation to epidemiological changes and scientific evidence ». «In this scenario, Calabria is going through an even more difficult phase, exacerbated by the COVID emergency which has exposed all the inefficiencies, inconsistencies and inequalities of a sick and unpredictable system. Yet this land is animated by high-level professionals who, outside the borders, are able to assert their reasons, their abilities, but who within the borders have great difficulties due to a widespread lack of listening. The capacity is not considered by us, on the contrary it is a disturbing element for the management of public health. This is producing a flight of professionals and patients to both regional and non-regional private facilities. The last years of commissioning with “experts” from outside the region at the head of health institutions, has sanctioned with poor results, as it is not geographic belonging that makes the difference but the intrinsic abilities of men who are put at the helm of the systems. Today a decisive change of pace is necessary, if we want to build a regional health system up to par. “
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