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“If Mario Draghi were to call me to be Minister of Health? I really hope he doesn’t. I don’t think I’m particularly suitable, I know how to do other things”. Massimo Galli, primary infectious disease specialist at the Sacco hospital in Milan, professor at the State University of the Lombard capital, thus responds to ‘Agorà’ on Rai3 to those who ask him if he is willing to take on a role in the new government that will have to be formed.
“Especially in health care, there is a need not to have interruptions of various kinds – explains the expert – Long live continuity”, he adds. “I say this with all frankness and it is not a political evaluation, but a practical one”, he explains. In a situation like this you need “the maximum possible speed and efficiency”, which also means “avoiding long periods in which someone has to learn what to do all over again, which is a problem for almost every technician I know”.
Faced with the prospect that a government role could be proposed to some virologists, Galli believes that “the profession of those who have some real competence on topics of this kind is fundamentally that of advising and guiding. It is not absolutely necessary, in my opinion, to put someone of mine, of our profession in the position of minister or deputy minister or undersecretary. I think it is important that whoever is there to perform certain functions makes the best use of the indications, advice and even some operations of people with certain characteristics “, but” it is not strictly necessary to put a person with a strictly technical profile to do the minister. If this is done, I believe a choice must be made among those with an important profile in the field of public health. I am predominantly a clinician “, so” I am not talking about myself under any circumstances “.
“It is clear that everything that is happening” on the political front in Italy “is causing slowdowns that we shouldn’t have”, observes Galli. For example, “I have a couple of requests in my drawer to make to the minister, which” however “out of courtesy I did not consider to forward to Minister Speranza in a transition phase like this”.
But will Draghi find a way to make a synthesis guaranteeing what the country needs? “I certainly don’t want to define him as the man of providence – smiles at the infectious disease specialist – but if he doesn’t make it, at this moment, I really don’t know who can make it. It is evident that politics has gone to pieces, and on the whole, did not give much proof of itself to a country that expected continuity of intervention which certainly had setbacks in this way. Or in any case, “national politics” was expressed neither comforting nor reassuring in the against a population that is tired from the epidemic, worried that people like me keep saying that the “Covid-19” situation is not resolved at all, and maybe “for this reason in front of the restrictions” has reactions of the all opposite, of frank refusal “.
For the expert, “there is a need for an ability to intervene which up to now has been fundamentally limited by a concrete weakness, which manifests itself above all in this continuous dance between center and periphery, between Regions that want to do each as it pleases. One a situation that ends up being extremely harmful in a country like ours – concludes Galli – in which the splitting of interventions becomes particularly dangerous “.
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