Parma shocked by the investigation Pasimafi which, last May, led to the arrest of nineteen people among executives, doctors and entrepreneurs in the pharmaceutical sector, with over 75 suspects. Among all emerges the controversial figure of Guido Fanelli, at the time head of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the Parma Hospital and university professor. His profession? Not treating people, making money off other people's illnesses and pain.
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I carry i sick people and I take the 10%“, Fanelli has repeatedly stated. The sentence is just one of many that emerged from the interceptions of telephone calls between the luminary and his wife. It was precisely these, contained in the judicial burden of over 500 pages weighing on Fanelli, that brought out the scandal and bring the Parma hospital to the forefront of national newspapers.
Guido Fanelli, now former Chief of the Second Anesthesia of the Major of Parma, has been recognized for years by everyone, even at national and international level, as a master of palliative care, as well as founder of the law 38.
What emerged from the interceptions, where Fanelli clearly calculated the suffering of people in turnover, therefore had a violent impact on the world of Medicine, in particular in the University Clinic of Parma.
Among the suspects for corruption also the children and wife of the university professor, as well as his right-hand man still under house arrest. “Self one hundred people die” – is another shocking phrase detected by telephone interceptions – with this filter, no one goes to jail“. Fanelli would have pronounced it in 2015, which explains how the organization had already been active for several years but also highlights the consideration that the doctors involved had of the scientific research in the field of palliative care.
organization led by Fanelli he tested experimental drugs on patients, totally unaware of what was happening to them. But that's not all: to promote drugs, in agreement with the pharmaceutical companies, the Head Doctor drafted false reports or denials and piloted the doctors' conferences, in order to favor the pharmaceutical companies included in the criminal organization.
That he was the boss, no doubt.
In another interception, in fact, he had declared in no uncertain terms: "It's not that I do the boss. The boss I am me and that's it. I command. I created a perfect system“. And the organization's modus operandi emerges from the interceptions: "I I take money – continues Fanelli – from one and the other in the same way. I keep my feet in four or five shoes. I am good boy“. Then again: "I manage the pain center largest in Italy. We do 19,000 surgeries a year. I can move millions of euros; everyone believes what we write, it is the strength of science“.
The Parma hospital had already asked for his resignation
In the Parmesan environment Guido Fanelli he was very well known. Already more than once the Hospital, seeing its modus operandi and raising some doubts about its activity, had denounced and had asked for it Suspension from service at the University of Parma, from which Fanelli depends. But also the rector, Loris Borghi, was on his side: in fact, his involvement also emerged from the investigations which then led to his resignation.
Son Robert was the head of a company money laundry, the Crag Up
The wife, Fiorella Edi Nobili, was a medical director, while the other son, Andrew, is accused of reporting scientific works at the request of pharmaceutical companies. The family is everything investigated. “My job – he says in another telephone interception with his wife – it is industrial espionage“. In order to collect, Fanelli was willing to do anything, even to endanger the Health of their patients.
NB: in the photo on the left the Regional Councilor for Health of Emilia-Romagna. He was general manager of the Parma University Hospital from 2002 to 2010.
