Surgery, Marco Scatizzi elected new president of Acoi

Marco Scatizzi is the new president of Italian surgeons. Director of the General Surgery Complex Operating Unit of the Santa Maria Annunziata and Serristori Hospitals in Florence, Scatizzi was elected to the national presidency of the Italian Hospital Surgeons Association (Acoi) by 2,100 colleagues at the 39th Congress of the Scientific Society, to which they over 3,200 congressmen and 500 guests attended. The congress – reports a note – recorded a total of 70 working sessions with 1,113 speakers and that this afternoon, concluding the voting operations, renewed the National Governing Council, the Board of Auditors and elected its new president, who has collected over 70% of the preferences by beating Micaela Piccoli, presidential candidate with an alternative list. “The first thing I will do as president Acoi – said Scatizzi – will be going to lay a wreath tomorrow morning at the Monument of the Covid victims in the city of Milan. We owe it to all citizens, all colleagues, all health personnel who lost his life for this cursed pandemic. And then – he continued in his first speech – our goal will be to be on the side of our patients: we will bring their requests, their needs to every institutional table because their serenity will be the our patients. If our patients believe in a National Health System that works then it will also be easier to restore serenity to young surgeons. We have a huge job to do – he concluded – but we will do it. I want our surgeons to choose, with pride, to stay in Italy and grow professionally in our country “.