In September the names for the new Nitag (National Consultative Technical Group on vaccinations), canceled just ten days after the appointment
No political or health earthquake It seems to be shaking the vertevere Ripa of the Ministry of Health. And the minister Orazio Schillaciwhich for the moment has decided not to make declarations regarding the Nitag (National Consultative Technical Group on vaccinations) and the controversies that have also achieved it within the government, is serene and does not think about resignation from the assignment that has held since October 2022.
Indeed, the well -informed, the reconstructions of the last few hours are vocifer are to be considered “excessive”. The shaking started four days ago when the Committee of twenty -two experts With regard to vaccines, an organ that has no decision -making powers but can only provide indications, it had been reset Less than two weeks after the appointment, which took place in early August – at the suggestion of Maria Rosaria Campitiello, head of the Prevention Department – when the minister was struggling with the law on the reform of health professions and theirs decriminalization.
The names not shared by the scientific world
A move, that of Schillaci, dictated by protests and from discontented what species Two of the nomatives identified had triggered in the scientific world. The names in question are those of the pediatrician Eugenio Serravalle and of the Amaologist Paolo Bellaviteboth criticized by the scientific community for their position on the theme of vaccines.
Against their investiture in the ministerial body they lined up medici, university, researchers And now too pharmacists, nurses e veterinariansas well as figures of the caliber of Giorgio ParisiNobel Prize for Physics in 2021, Di Matteo Bassettidirector of the infectious diseases of the San Martino Policlinico di Genova, and Di Silvio Garattinioncologist and founder of the Institute of Pharmacological Research Mario Negri.
The decision to revoke the assignment
Diplomatic and conciliatory attempts with the request to the two members questioning resign from the assignment just received. And so in the end Schillaci opted for the revocation of the whole group. That will come again appointed in September and that maybe he can also count on some reconfirmationas well as on the presence of categories first not contemplated.
A decision that, if on the one hand it received the applause of Pd, 5 Star Movement, Italy Viva, Forza Italia and +Europe at a political level, and of the Federation of General Medicine doctors, of nurses, veterinarians and pharmacists at the health level, It didn’t like the ministers at all Matteo Salvini and Francesco Lollobrigida. “There was a lack of lack of directly involved and experts on immunization policies – reads a joint note of the presidents of the Health Federations -. Let’s talk about who vaccinations administer themof those who collect informed consent or a dissent, whose motivations would be essential to collect, to guide information campaigns and to improve immunization and awareness objectives. We obviously refer to family doctors, pediatricians, nurses and pharmacists».
Go to all the news of Rome
Sign up for the Corriere Roma newsletter
