“We have to do everything to make it never happen again.” Thus the minister of the University and Scientific Research, Maria Cristina Messa, stigmatizes the drama of the pandemic, recalling the deaths and suffering that were a consequence of Sars-Cov2.
Speaking at the “Festival della Salute” promoted by the Gedi Group and live streaming on the sites of the Press and the Republic, Messa recalled: “We as doctors were in the center of the pandemic, between Bergamo and Lombardy, we were at the epicenter of the tragedy and we must remember the desperate appeals of doctors, resuscitators, infectious diseases, of those who could no longer manage to stem the wave of hospitalizations and deaths ».
“What I experienced as a doctor was also not being able to treat other patients. Here this is another aspect to say “Never again” Mass commented again. “Now we have to get out of this pandemic, as the premier said, and my task was to help the vaccination campaign, even to impose the Green Pass in universities,” continued the minister.
“As a doctor, my personal opinion is in favor of the mandatory vaccine. But I believe that before we get there, we must do everything to convince people voluntarily because what is obtained voluntarily is much more lasting ». He added.
“The University is the place of confrontation but there is also an institutional duty to protect health“. Finally, the minister commented on the protests of a group of professors for the introduction of the compulsory Green Pass in universities. And then when asked why there is a continuous brain drain from our country, he replied “the phenomenon of the Italian ‘brain drain'” is contained by giving researchers adequate salaries, higher salaries “.