{"id":14983,"date":"2012-06-15T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/bufera-in-lombardia-il-dg-alla-sanita-lucchina-si-dimette-dallaifa\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T23:30:00","slug":"bufera-in-lombardia-il-dg-alla-sanita-lucchina-si-dimette-dallaifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/bufera-in-lombardia-il-dg-alla-sanita-lucchina-si-dimette-dallaifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm in Lombardy, the Director of Health Lucchina resigns from AIFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><b><i><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #212120; font-size: 10.5pt\">Investigated for bid rigging in clinical trial investigation<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-autospace: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"><span style=\"font-family: BookAntiqua; color: #212120; mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">The Lombard General Manager of Health Carlo Lucchina, also appointed president of the Price and Reimbursement Committee of the regulatory body on Italian medicines a few days ago, has already resigned from AIFA following his registration in the register of suspects for an alleged auction rigging as part of the investigation coordinated by the Milan Public Prosecutor&#039;s Office into alleged agreements between private companies and public officials to build &#039;tailor-made&#039; regional tenders for the experimentation of high-tech scientific equipment. <\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-autospace: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"><span style=\"font-family: BookAntiqua; color: #212120; mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua\"><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">The news comes from the Minister of Health, Renato Balduzzi, on the occasion of the presentation of the Italia Longeva network in Ancona. &quot;No embarrassment \u2013 added the minister \u2013 because in accordance with his style, Dr. Lucchina resigned as soon as he received the news of this investigation. The real problem will be to find a replacement person who has the same technical skills as you&quot; . <\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-autospace: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><span style=\"font-family: BookAntiqua; color: #212120; mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua\"><font size=\"3\">From the general manager of Aifa, Luca Pani, questioned by journalists in Rome shortly before Lucchina&#039;s resignation on the sidelines of the Assobiotec assembly, a &quot;no comment&quot; on the matter. For its part, Farmindustria, on the other hand, says it is &quot;certain that the Minister of Health will find the right solutions so that AIFA can be allowed to continue carrying out its activity in the interest of patients&#039; health in the short term<\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-family: BookAntiqua; color: #212120; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: BookAntiqua\">&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><i><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color: #212120; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">June 15, 2012 \u2013 Barbara Di Chiara \u2013 PharmaKronos<\/span><\/i><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 9pt\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; color: #c00000; font-size: 16pt\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Lombard health: 28 suspects including DG Carlo Lucchina<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: IT\">Lombard health still in the storm: twenty-eight people under investigation, including the director general of health <b>Charles Lucchina<\/b>, the medical directors of the four hospitals targeted \u2013 Niguarda of Milan, Lecco, Busto Arsizio and Saronno \u2013 and managers of private companies, including General Electric, against which they are<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indagato per turbativa d&#8217;asta in un&#8217;inchiesta sulla sperimentazione clinica Il Dg lombardo alla Sanit&agrave; Carlo Lucchina, da pochi giorni nominato anche presidente del Comitato prezzi e rimborso dell&#8217;ente regolatorio sui medicinali italiano, si &egrave; gi&agrave; dimesso dall&#8217;Aifa in seguito all&#8217;iscrizione nel registro degli indagato per una presunta turbativa d&#8217;asta nell&#8217;ambito dell&#8217;inchiesta coordinata dalla Procura di &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fedaiisf-archivio-storico"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}