Italy promoted or rejected in the management of Covid? “We must always remember that we were the first to be hit, and we were caught ‘behind’. It would not have been easy for anyone to do better. There are extenuating circumstances. Having said that, it should be emphasized that the health organization, already worn out for years of cuts, of inattention to prevention, of superficial choices has dramatically shown the chord “. Massimo Galli, former director of Infectious Diseases at the Sacco hospital in Milan, explains this to time.news Health, reflecting on the choices of the Conte and Draghi governments in dealing with the pandemic emergency.
“The successive governments in Italy have had to face the emergency starting from a series of unfavorable events – he reiterates – that would have embarrassed any government. I do not think that any other European country could have avoided what happened to us at the ‘beginning. In other countries the pandemic came when the alarm was very evident. For the rest, as they say at school, they could have done better, but this is all too easy to say in retrospect “.
The pandemic, therefore, “has mercilessly highlighted how decades of cuts to health care, abandonment of the territory and prevention, had put us in serious difficulty. The starting organization was absolutely insufficient”, concludes Galli.