Ambulances stopped, Tavernise (M5S): waste continues in Calabria. Occhiuto takes action to make Azienda Zero efficient

John

By John

“He promised a change of direction in the management of Calabrian public healthcare and instead we find ourselves dealing with the same problems as always. Waste and inefficiencies also continue to characterize this new creature, Azienda Zero, which, beyond its name, operates in perfect continuity with the past”. This was stated in a note by the regional councilor and group leader of the 5 Star Movement, Davide Tavernise.
“It was October 31, 2023 – recalled Tavernise – when Occhiuto, with great fanfare, presented the new 60 ambulances which were supposed to increase the fleet of vehicles of the emergency-urgency service in the “San Francesco di Paola” square of the regional Citadel. year since that announcement, 20 of these are unusable. I would like to know how you justify the 20 ambulances stopped in a depot in Serra Spiga due to the lack of minimum safety requirementsthe passenger side airbag is in fact absent, the president of the regional council? How is it possible that this expense was authorized which, overall, for 60 ambulances, including the 20 unusable, involved the sum of 9 million and 420 thousand euros? Who will pay to compensate the public coffers for this useless expense? Answers that the commissioner ad acta for the implementation of the plan to reduce the deficit in the health sector of the Calabria region should give to all citizens before politics”.
“In truth – concluded Tavernise – the case of ambulances stopped in a region that absolutely needs to solve emergency/urgency problems is only the tip of the iceberg, the most visible thing that makes the most news. But the evils of our health care lurk elsewhere and politics enters with a straight leg into this discussion because it continues to decide and impose a management that clashes with the practices of good administration. Beyond the social narrative of the influencer version of Occhiuto, there is a reality that citizens know very well which will worsen with the approval of differentiated autonomy. Even in this case Occhiuto will soon have to assume political responsibility.”