“Specializations such as hygiene and prevention, primary health care, outpatient clinics, infectious diseases and epidemiology have been considered not strategic assets, not sexy enough,” said Michele Usuelli, a neonatologist in Milan who held a seat on the regional assembly, representing the center-left Più Europa Party. “That is why we have a health system very well prepared to treat the most complicated diseases, but completely unprepared to fight something like a pandemic.”
