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What Ranucci’s Report on WHO, War and the Old Anti-Pandemic Plan will reveal

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What Ranucci's Report on WHO, War and the Old Anti-Pandemic Plan will reveal

Report will present in the episode of December 7 a document that will show the responsibilities (disregarded) of Ranieri Guerra, now Deputy Director of WHO, in the update of the Italian anti-pandemic plan

News in the case of the failure to update the Italian pandemic plan.

In the hands of Report , which for several months has been denouncing Italy's shortcomings in the response to the pandemic, a document has ended that would demonstrate that Ranieri Guerra, WHO deputy director and former director of the Ministry of Health, was aware in 2017 of the need for update the pandemic plan.

Yet there was no update. Why? And whose responsibility is it?

Let's go step by step.

WHAT REPORT WILL REVEAL

In a document signed by the Directorate General of Health Prevention, directed in 2017 by Ranieri Guerra, which Repor t will show in the episode of 7 December, it is written of the need for Italy to have (and update) the pandemic plan.

“Pandemic flu is not a theoretical threat, it is rather a recurring threat. Influenza pandemics appear cyclically and lead to illness and death. For this reason, whenever a new flu virus emerges, a high level of attention is generated in the world. It is not possible to predict when the next pandemic will occur, or the severity and impact of the disease ", reads the document," it is possible, however, to take all measures aimed at containing the spread of the virus and limiting the likelihood of contagion to humans every time a new flu virus emerges and begins to spread among animals ".

WAR: UPDATE NEEDED

In the same document of 2017, signed by Ranieri Guerra, in the final lines it is clear that Italy is called, after the new WHO indications (of 2014) to update the pandemic plan.

“In 2007, the International Health Regulations (CSR 2005) came into force, which provides Member States with the tools to deal with any event that may pose a risk to public health. In 2014, WHO updated Ie on guidelines to allow countries to be better prepared for the next pandemic ”, the document reads.

“In light of these developments, the need arose to prepare a new national preparedness and response plan for an influenza pandemic. The working group for the realization of the document is made up of representatives of the Higher Institute of Health, Scientific Societies, Universities, Research Bodies and IRCSS. It will be coordinated by this General Management, unless otherwise advised ".

PANDEMIC PLAN NEVER UPDATED

Yet that updated pandemic plan was never drafted. And Italy fulfilled its obligation to have one with the reconfirmation of a plan drawn up in 2006, as reported in the report "An unprecedented challenge, Italy's first response to Covid" , drawn up by 10 WHO researchers led by Francesco Zambon ( which is now in danger of being fired ), published on the Organization's website on 13 May and withdrawn in less than 24 hours.

"The WHO has drawn up the report on Italy's 'chaotic' response to Covid", headlines the Financial Times, which adds: "The assessment that Rome was" unprepared "was removed from the website a few hours after publication" .

WAS THERE EVER REAL AWARENESS ABOUT THE NEED FOR UPDATING?

In short, the need mentioned in the document of the Directorate-General for Health Prevention never seems to have been taken seriously. Neither in the years in which the director in charge was Ranieri Guerrà, nor before.

"In my role as director of the WHO collaborating center for Travel Medicine, a position I held from 1988 to 2008 (5 four-year terms), I participated in various meetings at the Ministry aimed at preparing the basis for a pandemic plan, but in each of the circumstances I noticed how this was not taken too seriously by the Ministry officials themselves ”, writes today Walter Pasini, Director of the Center for Travel medicine and global health and former director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Travel Medicine, in La Verità.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF MINISTERS

And Pasini adds: “Then no one has so far highlighted the responsibilities of the ministers of health that have succeeded from 2006 to today. None or none of them was called to answer for this serious breach ”.

THE FAULTS OF WHO

But if Italy has not updated and drafted the pandemic plan, the WHO, on the other hand, has been far-sighted. And the pandemic (albeit flu) was foreseen. So why so many errors in the management of Covid-19?

According to Pasini, China had a role: "The reason lies in the fact that the WHO at least since 2006, since the Chinese Margaret Chan assumed the role (held until 2017) of general manager, is a ' agency in which China has a predominant influence. The next director, the Ethiopian Tedros Gebrayesus, was elected thanks to the diplomatic action of China and pursues a pro-Chinese policy ”.

THE WHO PHILOCINESE POLICY

And in fact, from the World Health Organization there has never been a call to Beijing's management of the pandemic: "WHO has never criticized China for the delays with which it communicated when, where and how it is. the Covid-19 epidemic began "and" the position of the WHO on the origin of the virus was also very ambiguous ", writes Pasini in La Verità.

WHO NOT CRITIFIED

And the behavior of the WHO was decidedly little criticized by the member states, including Italy: "Finally, one wonders why the so shamelessly pro-Chinese policy has not been sufficiently criticized by the member states", asks Pasini.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/che-cosa-svelera-report-di-ranucci-su-oms-guerra-e-il-piano-antipandemico-vecchio/ on Mon, 07 Dec 2020 13:51:46 +0000.