Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin
and the head of Italy's anti-corruption authority ANAC, Raffaele
Cantone, on Thursday signed a protocol to set up a task force
against corruption in the health sector after a welter of
spending scandals.
The first controls will start in September, the protocol
said.
The task force will be charged with seeing that
health-sector companies comply with a national anti-corruption
plan.
The force, comprising Carabinieri of the NAS health unit
and inspectors from the ministry and from ANAC, has the aim of
"seeing that anti-corruption protocols are applied", Lorenzin
said.
"This is not supposed to be repressive but preventive
action," she said, adding that "we have to change the cultural
approach because at times there is not even the awareness that
they are breaking the rules".
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