Figliuolo: “This is how Italy won the pandemic, our model ready for a new emergency”

For a year he was extraordinary commissioner for the Covid 19 emergency, general Francesco Paolo Figliolo reached the objectives set and freed the country from the grip of the virus, on Saturday 4 June in Turin for the closing event of the Economy Festival he explained how he managed to ferry Italy out of the pandemic. “It is a positive balance sheet because the model created which was based on skills, values ​​such as courage, loyalty, verticality of decisions was ultimately successful”, said Figliuolo to what reports Notizie.it. In particular, General Figliuolo recalled all the categories that with their work made this goal possible, “starting with health and social health workers, but also the world of associations with volunteers who did not spare themselves, and then the entrepreneurs, professionals, banks and all those entities that have made available local, but also administrative skills to manage the more than 3000 vaccination hubs in the area. And then the competence of my team with specialized personnel from all the armed forces, the guard finance, the carabinieri, the magistrate of the Court of Auditors and the two state magistrates who made the difference “. Organization, a team of competent professionals of absolute trust and courage to make choices, so General Figliolo reset the system, introduced the health card to identify the vaccine population and overcome the difficulties of a non-homogeneous territory. “When I arrived I was asked by the Prime Minister for a change of pace because the pandemic was destroying public health, the economy and the sociality of Italians – he said on the sidelines of the Conference – there was no circularity of information, we were unable to define well the audiences of the people to be vaccinated first, or to systematize all the citizens’ data, because they ended up in part in the national vaccination register and in the other part they were data that the regions had, so I asked for it to be used the health card as a reference data and this allowed us to have a unique and valid photo for everyone “. A choice that is decisive for overturning the situation in Lombardy in particular, which started with a clear delay in the vaccination campaign, has managed in a short time not only to reduce the gap with the other regions, but even to perform exceptional: “Thanks to the system central, the disastrous departure was remedied – Figliuolo analyzed -. Leaving Lombardy behind, which is in fact a State Region and a sixth of Italy meant making the vaccination campaign fail and we could not afford it “. And so it was not, despite the many difficult moments: from the initial pressures of those who believed they were the first to have the right to the administration, to the lack of stocks, up to the two adenovirus-based vaccines, banned for young people: “If it could have been more massively involved the general practitioners and pharmacists, probably we would have done even better – underlined the General -, even better management of c communication at the institutional level and with the media would have ensured greater peace of mind. Too much animosity and emotionality have in fact created spheres of gray that. fortunately, however, the Italians were able to overcome. In the end, sensational numbers were made and today we are a world reference point “. Once the Covid pandemic has been overcome, the organizational efficiency model created by General Figliuolo remains, which is an asset that could also be useful in the future to deal with new emergencies” Surely we can replicate it for emergencies not only linked to pandemics – pointed out Figliuolo -. Today we have a catalyst based on skills and values ​​that is understood as such, so I think the model is fine. However, it would be important for these models to become the patrimony of the ordinary, and not to say that Italy is able to give its best and do exceptional things only in an emergency “.