On May 28, the new appointments at the top of health. Support document in Vercellino
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An appeal signed by ninety-eight mayors and delivered to the regional councilor for health Luigi Icardi to ask for a guaranteed continuity of management in Asl / To4. And, therefore, that Luigi Vercellino is appointed general manager of the Canavese healthcare company, from 28 August asl / To4 commissioner, at the end of the month he will become general manager for the next three years.
To promote the appeal to the councilor Icardi was the mayor of Ivrea, Stefano Sertoli. In the 16 lines of the appeal for Icardi, the name of Vercellino never appears. To build consensus around the appeal, Sertoli did not focus on the name of Vercellino, but on the concept of continuity. On May 28, the regional council should proceed with the appointments to the top of the Piedmontese health companies. And the great maneuvers have already begun. In particular, the name of Vercellino has been insistently mentioned on various occasions as destined for Alexandria, strongly supported by the League. At the ASL of Alessandria, Vercellino had already been administrative director until his appointment at the top of the ASL / To4. And all in the Lega house is the decision whether to move Vercellino to Alessandria or confirm him (as the Canavese part of the party would like) to the direction of the ASL / To4 for the next three years. The stay of Vercellino is also linked to that of the administrative director Michele Colasanto, chosen by the commissioner. The same indiscretions related to the destination of Vercellino in Alessandria give Carlo Bono, former health director from 2010 to 2012 and current director of the Settimo Torinese district, arriving at the top of the Canavese healthcare company.
It is a fact that the ASL / To4 (174 Municipalities and over half a million residents) is complex to manage. Composed of three territorially different areas and which often pose themselves substantially as competitors, the management of the processes is tiring. To this, three years of profoundly red budgets are added, the need to contribute to the start of a process for the construction of the new hospital in Ivrea in the most complete division of mayors, the indispensability of carrying out the works already announced for the last summer in hospitals from the Arcuri plan, the importance of identifying solutions for the chronic shortage of medical specialists, not procrastinating beyond the purchase of modern technological equipment indispensable in the path of diagnosis of care. Hence, the concern of some mayors to find themselves, after nine months, with a new change of direction at a time when the pandemic is not yet an archived topic.
Sertoli, the first citizen of Ivrea and president of the ASL / To4 mayors’ conference, gave voice to these concerns by drafting a short document for the commissioner. “We neither want nor can enter into decisions that do not compete with us – Sertoli points out in the document signed by the mayors – because it is a decision of the regional council, but as mayors we have a health responsibility in our municipalities. And a change in the leadership of the ASL, if not motivated by reasons of utmost urgency, would be perceived as an untimely action or an obstacle to the continuation of all those actions and projects already under construction that are about to see the light on the territory thanks to the close collaboration between the department, health departments, commissioner and his team “.
Over 90 mayors signed the letter sent to Icardi and others joined when it had already been sent for a total of over 110. –