The President of the Calabria Region Roberto Occhiuto, Commissioner of the Calabrian healthcare, was appointed Commissioner for the State of Hospital Emergency in Calabriadeclared by the Council of Ministers on 7 March: to appoint the head of the National Civil Protection, Fabio Ciciliano with his own ordinance.
The appointment had been requested by Occhiuto himself with a PEC of last February 5 in which he had proposed “the need to accelerate the procedures relating to the realization of the interventions in the health sector of the new hospitals of Sibaritide, Vibo Valentia, of the plain of Gioia Tauro, Locri, and those financed by Inail for the companies Gom Reggio Calabria, Asp Reggio Calabria, AO Cosenza, Aou Catanzaro, ASP Crotone, ASP Crotone».
The civil protection ordinance, assumed “after hearing the Inail” and in agreement with the Region, highlights “the need to have the implementation of the first urgent interventions aimed at facing the emergency” considering that “the emergency situation underway, for the urgent characters, does not allow the completion of ordinary procedures, but requires the use of extraordinary powers in derogation from the current legislation”. In his new assignment, Occhiuto, which “operates free of charge, can make use – orders the order of civil protection – of the structures and offices of the Region, the local authorities, the related instrumental bodies, as well as of the central and peripheral administrations of the State, of the conventions and centers of competence of the Civil Protection, defining with the law enforcement agencies, where it is necessary, pursuant to article 15 of law 241/1990, the assignment of staff, with charges against the regional budget “.