Coronavirus, L’Espresso: “Skip the supply of 4 million masks. The Lombardy Region has made an incorrect order”. Pd and M5s: “Absurd”

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A mistake of the Lombardy region he wasted 15 days in the fight against the infection coronavirus. The weekly says so Espresso, which in an article by Fabrizio Gatti tells about the supply of four million masks announced by the governor Attilio Fontana at the moment it has not yet arrived. The distribution of those masks had been guaranteed by Thursday 27 February but the order was canceled on Monday 2 March. According to the official version, the “supplier was unable to fulfill its obligations“. In reality, the weekly quotes sources from the Civil protection according to which the Region, wanting to manage the crisis directly without going through the central government, chose the manufacturing companies by not consulting the lists from the Lombard prefectures. In this way, the purchase requests were sent to companies that for some time no longer manufacture or import the requested products.

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“The order of four million masks was canceled Monday last from the regional central purchasing body. since the supplier was unable to fulfill its obligations. Further orders have been completed with a series of other suppliers for the quantities of templates required. The acquisition of the devices is taking place at various economic operators and, on Monday, we have already received and distributed 57.440 masks type FFP2; 22.620 type FFP3 e 496,600 surgical“, Said the office of the Lombard governor Espresso. The priority in the distribution of the masks already purchased obviously goes to hospitals and intensive care units. Result? In the region most affected by the virus, family doctors and those of the medical guards – that is, those who often make the first diagnosis – have not yet largely had the masks necessary to work.

“There Civil Protection is reaching an agreement with a foreign state for the supply of a few million masks “, assured the Councilor for the Budget of the Lombardy Region Davide Caparini during the usual emergency press conference. “This situation is intolerable,” he protests, however Paola Pedrini, Lombard secretary of the Italian Family Physicians Federation: “We want clear answers and effective measures, we cannot continue to jeopardize our health and that of our clients for failures by those who, on the other hand, should protect everyone’s health. The situation is all the more dramatic if one takes into account the risk of contracting the disease not only for general practitioners, who remain the first interlocutors for patients, but also and above all for the more fragile patients with whom they come into contact on a daily basis. In the provinces where the supply took place, the numbers are not even remotely sufficient to guarantee the clinical safety activities of colleagues ”.

The affair obviously also ignited the political controversy. “While doctors and nurses are praised who should protect them is unable to manage a call for tenders! It is evident that the Junta is not he hadn’t planned at all a targeted and well-calibrated intervention action on the possible emergency declaration and on medical-hospital management in order to spread the infection. All of this really is absurd, the Lombard Council manages Healthcare as if it were any activity and not as an essential service for the health of its citizens, “he says Marco Fumagalli, group leader of the M5s at Pirellone. “A mistake he made lose 15 days of fundamental time for fight the virus and which we are now asking for. It is not acceptable that those who are in the front line in facing the emergency are left alone “, the councilors of the Democratic Party in Lombardy attack Gianni Girelli is Pietro Bussolati. To which he replies Roberto Anelli, group leader of the Lega al Pirellone: ​​”There is no limit to the worst. The professionals of the political looting do not miss an opportunity, not even in such a big emergency, to mount unnecessary controversy on the skin of those who have been working incessantly for 14 days to counter the coronavirus emergency “.

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