"Per gusto e per diletto": Roberto Speranza

📣 The event continues with Roberto Speranza, author of the book "Why We Will Heal. From the Hardest Days to a New Idea of Health", published by Solferino, interviewed by Giuseppe Palazzo.

📕 A book that comes from the heart of the storm, written by the protagonist in the fight against the pandemic: the story of Covid and how it was faced, captured live from the rooms of the Ministry of Health. In these pages, we retrace the months that marked all of us, from the explosion of infections to the first traumatic lockdown, and then the fear, the curfew, the safety measures, up to the vaccination campaign that finally brought us out of the nightmare. We go behind the scenes to understand what really happened: the race to implement the projects outlined in the PNRR, the change of government amid the second wave, the challenge of redesigning the Italian healthcare system to bring it closer to the people, to the territory. A story that has been told in many ways but never from the inside, from the perspective of someone who had to make decisions on which thousands of lives depended and worked to try to prevent such hard days from returning.

The first-person account of the years as Minister by Roberto Speranza is much more than an essay. It is a heartfelt testimony, a gripping narrative, a precious memory. Even more so today, when the worrying signs of a reversal of trend are felt, of a contraction in healthcare investments. Because, the author writes, a country that does not value its healthcare personnel, that does not provide the right conditions for them to work at their best, that does not defend and strengthen its public health system is a country that tomorrow will find itself unarmed. And Italy cannot afford that.

🔎 Roberto Speranza was the Minister of Health from 2019 to 2022, first in the yellow-red government led by Giuseppe Conte and then in the government presided over by Mario Draghi. He is a member of the Democratic Party, in which he served as regional secretary in Basilicata, as well as group leader in the Chamber of Deputies during the 17th legislature (2013-2015). He was also the secretary of Articolo Uno (2019-2023), a party he was first the national coordinator of (from 2017 to 2019) and even earlier a founder. Reelected in 2022, he is currently a member of the Culture, Science, and Education Commission.

⏰ The event will take place on Saturday, July 11, at 5:30 PM.

👉 At the MAAC Museum - “Rita Santoro Mastantuono” Poetry Garden - Via Enrico de Nicola, no. 1, Ceglie Messapica.
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