Four M5S exponents, the deputies Vittoria Baldino, Anna Laura Orrico and Riccardo Tucci, together with the regional councilor Davide Tavernisewith an official note, asked the commissioner of the provincial health company of Catanzaro Antonio Battistini, The immediate removal of Dr. Antonio Gallucci from the assignment of health director of the same company, “for the very serious reasons” illustrated in the document.
At the center of the five -star complaint, it is written in a note, Gallucci’s participation in an electoral initiative from the center -right, held on Monday 19 May in a room in the Civil Hospital of Lamezia Terme, in the presence of staff of the city hospital and local and regional political representatives of the center -right.
«During the event, widely documented with video and public posts on social media – it is written in the note – the health director had introduced the works greeting ‘our candidate for mayor, the lawyer Murone’ and thanking ‘our regional councilor’ ‘ Antonello Talerico. At the speakers’ table, next to Gallucci, also the manager of Fratelli d’Italia Cesare mattress And Giuseppe Serramanager of the League. The municipal councilor of Lamezia Terme had also spoke to the initiative Annalisa Spinellicandidate for the city councilor in the ‘Moderates’ list ».
«The episode is of unheard of gravity – declare the Five Stars – and certifies, unequivocally, as much as a part of the Calabrian health is still bent on politics. That a health director participates in an election campaign event in a hospital, addressing staff with rally tones, is something that leaves dismayed. It is the image of a management that feels above every rule, which acts in complete tranquility, without any institutional modesty ».
According to the M5S exponents, Gallucci’s behavior “has compromised the impartiality of the ASP of Catanzaro And he gave a wrong message to health personnel and the community ». «Public health must be a garrison of neutrality and a primary service for the health of citizens, not an electoral stage. Therefore, we asked Commissioner Battistini an immediate intervention. A strong signal is needed – the Five Stars conclude – to return credibility to institutions and health structures ».