Mastroroberto who? Maselli’s “iron man”? Cuda who? Quattrone’s “ventriloquist”? The sad and somewhat pathetic ritual of self-celebration by the elite of the Italian University, last in all the rankings, continues. The recent statements by Professor Mastroroberto, director of a cardiac surgery department that needs “outside help” when facing delicate operations, are astonishing. According to the professor, it is politics that doesn’t know UMG, which in his opinion would be a university envied by all of Europe. Too bad that the official ratings tell us a completely different reality. A reality that tells us that the faculty of medicine, made great by Rector Venuta, is now reduced to a branch of Unical.
But we are not surprised. Professor Mastroroberto, allergic to criticism, is one of the masterminds, together with Rector Cuda, of the operation aimed at erasing the experience of Sant’Anna Hospital in order to divide up the spoils of cardiac surgery positions between the Policlinico and the Annunziata of Cosenza.
Rector Cuda aims to demolish the old Catanzaro healthcare (Il Pugliese, Ciaccio, Sant’Anna) so that he can comfortably govern all the healthcare of the capital from Germaneto and manage an impressive amount of resources and funding. They want to remain alone on the scene and are willing to do anything to achieve this goal.
Fortunately, the Sant’Anna issue is still open and we hope that both politics and administrative justice will confirm the right of the private Catanzaro facility to restart on the basis of a historic accreditation.
Professor Mastroroberto says that politics does not know the University. I say that the University does not know our City and its ability to react to the attempts at conditioning and pressure that are being exerted, perhaps even these days, to try to bend decisions and choices all in favor of the “barony” of Germaneto. Sergio Costanzo City Councillor