(ANSA) - NAPLES, NOVEMBER 5 - "The pharmaceutical sector, clearly going against the trend of all other industrial sectors, knows no crisis". This is supported by Carmelo Carnovale, national president of Federaisf (federation of drug sales representatives), who spoke in Naples at the federation's national congress. The meeting had as its theme "The information 'service' on drugs: morals and ethics, economics and marketing" and represented an important opportunity for discussion and professional updating on pharmacology in all its aspects. But the data coming from the sector in terms of employment are not all positive: ”Despite these aspects – added Carnovale – there are numerous companies which, on the sole basis of hypotheses of a reduction in sales for future years, compared to their forecasts, have proceeded with heavy cuts in the number of scientific representatives. It is estimated that in the last five years 12-15 thousand informants have been fired through collective personnel reduction procedures. The number is impressive, but unfortunately it didn't make the news”. The dean of the faculty, Giuseppe Cirino also took part in the conference; the archbishop of Campobasso/Boiano and president of the Italian episcopal commission for social problems and work, justice and peace, Giancarlo Maria Bregantini [top right]; the national president of Assogenerici, Giorgio Foresti; the professor of labor law at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Antonio Pileggi. ”In the face of abuses of all kinds and complicity at every institutional level – continued Carnovale – we make Cardinal Bagnasco's speech our own on social, economic and financial issues: 'Work is a right and its primacy over capital must be recognized. We must speak of work as the right and duty of every person, of the primacy of man over work, and of the primacy of work over capital'. Hence, in a society that has lost its moral and ethical references, we believed that the CEI commission for social problems, labour, justice and peace chaired by Monsignor Giancarlo Maria Bregantini was the only moral and ethical reference capable of overcoming the inefficiencies and culpable silences of the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Health and the trade union organisations". ”It is necessary to ensure that health – Bregantini argued – also thanks to the precious action of the scientific informant, a precious figure provided however that it is increasingly characterized by a strong ethical imprint, becomes the health of all and for all. And all this because even scientific knowledge must be placed within an ethical logic such that the centrality of every human action must remain the person and not the market”. (HANDLE).
Dr. Giorgio Foresti, president of Assogenerici, who spoke at the Federaisf Congress [Editor's note: news and press coverage relating to the Federaisf Congress can be consulted on the website
