The Catanzaro City Council, considering it necessary to open a discussion table between the heads of the regional health service, the representatives of the structure and the social partners to find concrete solutions that will allow the Sant’Anna Hospital to continue operating, has approved, unanimously by those present, aaddress with which the mayor Nicola Fiorita commits himself to start an immediate dialogue with the commissioner for the Calabrese health recovery plan, Roberto Occhiuto. This is, in a nutshell, the result of the meeting of the civic assembly that was held yesterday to discuss exclusively the issue of the private clinic in Catanzaro and its more than one hundred employees on extraordinary redundancy pay.
The meeting had been called in an open manner with the invitation to participate not only to the clinic’s employees, the trade unions and those who look after the interests of the property, but, above all, to the leaders of regional politics and Calabrian healthcare, the president of the Regional Council and commissioner Roberto Occhiuto and the president of the Regional Council, Philip Mancusoso that a political-administrative debate could be started aimed at finding a stable solution to the issue. The unions intervened Louis Veraldi (Cgil) and Antonio Iiritano (Usb).
In the Chamber, however, just over two thirds of the city councilors were present. The majority line-up is almost complete, with the absences of Antonello Talerico, Antonio Barberio, Danilo Sergi and Giulia Procopi. On the other hand, the sudden absence of Marco Polimeni due to new family needs, he reduced the Forza Italia patrol, also orphaned by Alessandra Lobello. At Lega’s house, the only one present of the four members was the group leader Eugene Riccio. In the Mixed, absent Anthony Courses.
The deputy mayor introduced the topic Giusy Iemma: “Today’s City Council – he said – is a dutiful political act, which the civic assembly could not avoid, even in the absence of direct expertise in the matter. The situation requires us to ask all the subjects involved in this affair, starting with the Commissioner for Health and President of the Region, to make every possible effort to try to keep alive such an enormous heritage of knowledge but also of prestige for the city”.
