Puglia, councilor Lopalco resigns. Emiliano: “Think back”

Pier Luigi Lopalco resigns as regional councilor for health in Puglia. He made his delegation available to the president of the Puglia Region Michele Emiliano, motivating his choice in a letter to the president of the council who asked him “to try to recover his strength and return to offer his support to the action of the regional council. , hoping that he can reconsider his choice. “” The action carried out by Pier Luigi Lopalco during the pandemic was undoubtedly incessant and tiring, so I understand his tiredness and I have deep respect for his reasons “, writes the governor Emiliano in a note . “The Apulians, however, must know that the entire health team does not stop, the work continues to ensure the highest level of performance and that attention to health issues remains very high on my part and on the part of the entire regional administration, today as In an interview, the commissioner Lopalco also raised a topic that sees us in different positions and that concerns the administration of an innovative drug to an Apulian child suffering from a serious genetic disease. The possible administration of this drug must always and in any case be established by a medical prescription and with the prior authorization of the parents, who in this specific case have already requested. ” it is a doctor who prescribes it and if the family authorizes it, the Region will support the child’s care, obviously in compliance with the rules and the supremacy of medical registration. In light of these considerations, I asked councilor Lopalco, to whom sincere feelings of esteem and affection bind me, to try to regain strength and return to offer his support to the action of the regional council, hoping that he can remedy his choice”.