Razza’s coronation in front of the managers: “Primary and recruitment now”

The tones describe them “calm”, that is “without too much emphasis on the great comeback”, nor “witch hunt or applausometer” among the leaders of the Sicilian health care orphans (with different degrees of ostentatious nostalgia) for almost two months of the councilor, however called to “square up” in the last year and a half of regional government. Yet what took place in Catania is a delicate step. Nello Musumeci crowned Ruggero Razza again in front of the managers of Asp and hospitals. He legitimized and armored it. “A guarantee notice cannot anticipate a judgment, otherwise there would be no democracy, but only a semblance of it”, the governor said in the meeting room of the PalaRegione, stating that “it is right that the commissioner Razza has returned to his place to complete positive work ». The person concerned showed up in the new low-profile version promised to the governor, allies and insiders. No reference to the investigation into the false Covid data in which he is still being investigated in Palermo (heard in recent weeks by the prosecutors, to whom he provided his version of the facts), the councilor for Health did not let any emotion shine through. Limiting himself to thanking “the many, among you, who have been close to me” and those who “recently asked me to return.”

And the meeting immediately moved to the operational phase. The handover between Musumeci (who kept the interim until May 30) and Razza is clearly marked by total continuity. Starting with lights and shadows in the management of this phase of the pandemic. The need to make up for the delays on people over eighty and over 70, with the investment in a “proximity vaccination” which inevitably passes to general practitioners “only minimally in the trenches” (Musumeci’s established concern) and pharmacies , but also the observation of a faster pace in recent days (over 60 thousand doses per day) and the prospect of the arrival of 1.3 million ampoules in June. Thus the bar of the objectives of the Region, “in fourth place in Italy for citizens with the recall already made”, which is placed at the end of June (at least 50% of the Sicilians vaccinated, which today are about 40%) with the prospect of arrive at immunization in October and then launch the long-term plan of the third administration.

But we have not only talked about Covid. Also because health care, a year and a half away from the Regionals, remains a decisive electoral basin. And so here is the theme of the competitions and appointments. There is a ban on anesthesiologists (with about 320 questions out of 250 places), but above all there is the “new staffing” that will be approved in Palermo “within the next week” and there is the heartfelt invitation to “accelerate the preparation of company documents “for new primary and senior managers.

Appointments now again under the aegis of Razza, who nods when Musumeci presses the managers: “Avoid taking initiatives not agreed with the regional government, perhaps to have a headline on the local pages of the newspapers.” The new input is explicit: «The good things you do must be shared, let’s play as a team». Because the match of life, that of Musumeci & Razza-bis, must be played with a very specific tactic. Without leaving anything – and especially the votes – to chance.

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