Lorenzin, Cantone set up graft force (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, April 21 - 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".