“We are not going to postpone the mandatory vaccination and we will always be careful to reconcile the right to health with respect for personal freedoms. Commission of Inquiry? Parliament has the right to investigate the management of the pandemic but there must be no exploitation”. This is what the Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci, said in an interview with the Líbero newspaper.
Emphasizing that he “never questioned the usefulness of vaccines” nor that “he never said that the mandatory use of masks in hospitals should be lifted”, Minister Schillaci explains how “today the epidemic has changed” and he should start talking about Covid 23 instead of Covid 19. The current form is less aggressive and we know how to treat it better. Is the emergency over? I hope that next spring we will have left it behind. The situation in hospitals and intensive care units is under control “, he guarantees. For the Minister of Health in the management of Covid “it is necessary to send a message of discontinuity with the previous management. Public health has to be depoliticized, it is neither left nor right” and on top of that “today there are more important emergencies than the pandemic, for example tumors. The controversy over unvaccinated doctors? They’re back all over the world and we need them. It’s shallow to say they don’t believe in science,” he adds.
As for the health situation, for Schillaci “the evil to be treated” is “the chronicity of the pathologies that affect many elderly people and deplete 40% of the available resources. There are many things to do. One of the most important is prevention, even in schools. if we introduced an hour of food education and correct lifestyles, we would guarantee the elderly of tomorrow many more years of healthy life. I think this is a priority in schools, much more than others that are given importance today”, concludes the minister.
Source: IL Tempo
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