Eugenio Gaudio said Tuesday that he
was quitting as Calabria's health commissioner, a day after
being appointed to the role, citing personal reasons.
"My wife does not intend to move to Catanzaro," Gaudio, until
recently the dean of Rome's La Sapienza University, told La
Repubblica.
"A job like this should be tackled with total commitment and I
don't intend to cause a family crisis".
Finding the right person for the job is proving a headache for
Premier Giuseppe Conte's government.
Giuseppe Zuccatelli said Monday that he has resigned as
Calabria's health commissioner at the request of Health Minister
Roberto Speranza.
Zuccatelli was appointed to the post earlier this month after
his predecessor, Saverio Cotticelli, resigned following a
car-crash TV interview in which he admitted his had not known it
was his job to prepare the region's anti-COVID plan.
But Zuccatelli himself soon found himself at the centre of a
furore after a video emerged from earlier this year in which he
said using facemasks was pointless.
At the weekend, Gino Strada, the founder of medical-aid NGO
Emergency, said he had told the government he was willing to
take on the commissioner post after being sounded out by Premier
Giuseppe Conte but the administration has not gotten back to
him.
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