(ANSA) - CATANZARO, 05 JAN - "We are used to seeing Calabria at the bottom in the national rankings: as regards, for example, work, health, infrastructures. We are in the regional government to reverse this trend. We have been working 24 hours a day for two months. to turn the page and start again. And you can already see the first results ". Thus the president of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto. "In the first four days of the year - he explains - we administered 68,646 doses, 21.23% more than the 56,625 set as a goal. Behind us all the other Regions. At different locations the battleships Lombardia, Veneto, EmiliaRomagna".
"Certainly the problems of a complex territory like ours - continues Occhiuto - cannot be solved with the magic wand from one day to the next. Calabria started late on vaccinations, continued slowly, struggled in the hottest months of the pandemic. My first The governor's intervention was to keep all the vaccination centers in the Region open, in a period in which the pandemic seemed to give us a bit of respite and someone, mistakenly, was thinking of demobilization. I have always considered the fundamental administration to combat Covid, especially in one region like ours, with a dilapidated healthcare system and a fragile hospital network ". "On the vaccination campaign - he maintains - I was very insistent: I involved all the provincial health authorities and all the hospitals,I asked the national commissioner for help, I used mobile units for users with greater difficulties, I encouraged some small municipalities that were seriously overdue, I have incentives for general practitioners and pediatricians. The work done in these months has produced an extraordinary result: Calabria is the first region in Italy for inoculations in January, compared to the targets indicated by General Son. "" I thank those who have worked in recent weeks - concludes Occhiuto - to achieve this important goal.The work done in these months has produced an extraordinary result: Calabria is the first region in Italy for inoculations in January, compared to the targets indicated by General Son. "" I thank those who have worked in recent weeks - concludes Occhiuto - to achieve this important goal.The work done in these months has produced an extraordinary result: Calabria is the first region in Italy for inoculations in January, compared to the targets indicated by General Son. "" I thank those who have worked in recent weeks - concludes Occhiuto - to achieve this important goal.
We still have a lot to do, but this milestone tells us that wanting is power, and it tells better than anything else about the change we dream of for Calabria.
Go on like this ". (ANSA).