Naples – "In Campania, we cannot accept that the 2025 Cancer Registry does not contain actual data from 2021 to 2025, but only statistical projections. This is a very serious matter."
With these words, in his first speech to the Regional Council, Davide D'Errico, newly elected on the "Roberto Fico President" list, raised the alarm about the transparency of health data in a region historically exposed to environmental risks.
The reference to the Land of Fires is explicit: "Especially in the region where the European Court of Human Rights has recognized a concrete and imminent risk to the lives of millions of citizens," D'Errico emphasized. The numbers already known, he recalled, "already tell the story of a tragedy: 446.568 cases of cancer between 2010 and 2021, nearly one in ten citizens in 11 years."
The lack of up-to-date data, according to the councilor, "weakens prevention, healthcare planning, and population protection." Hence the call for "an obsessive commitment to immediately updating the registry, preventing and addressing the causes, starting with environmental ones."
In his speech, D'Errico combined his health-related criticism with a strong social commentary, starting with a personal memory: "My grandfather was killed because, as an honest businessman, he refused to pay the protection money. Since then, a phrase has weighed heavily on this land: 'Good people never get rich here.'" A sentiment, he warned, that today "pushes young people away and leaves room for those who live by shortcuts and illegality."
On the organized crime front, he highlighted how "the Camorra plans to continue occupying economic and social spaces, from contracts to appointments, from public funds to waste," recalling that "Campania is the region with the highest number of municipalities dissolved due to mafia infiltration."
As a first concrete step to reverse the trend and send an "immediate signal," D'Errico appealed to the Regional Council and Executive Committee: "We need concrete and rapid measures, especially regarding employment.
I ask that one of the first decisions be the introduction of a regional minimum wage for regional contract workers, to prevent those who work there from being poor." A measure, he says, that is already feasible: "Puglia has done it, and the Constitutional Court is advocating it. With a provision, we can guarantee an extra €200-300 per month to hundreds of people."
The challenge, he concluded, is to demonstrate that "in Campania, good people can make it. That honest work is more profitable than illegal work. That respecting the rules is better than jumping the queue. And that this Region can truly be fair, productive, and anti-Camorra."
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It's important that the cancer registry is updated and that the data is accurate. It's impossible to rely solely on statistical projections; this creates confusion and distrust among the population. Health is fundamental.