It's a controversy at a distance Lombardy and Fedez region. Pirellone's response didn't take long to arrive after the rapper commented on the hospital that was being built at the Milan exhibition center at the time Covid and on donations from Ferragnez. How many beds were created with this money? “14 and not 150 As the singer said, the region communicates with a note that first underlines how “important, valuable and useful have been all the fundraising that has allowed the creation of structures and train structures in which the most serious patients, such as that organized by the artist and his wife Chiara Ferragni, next to the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan” and then clarifies that “the intensive care beds created in the structure created thanks to the donations collected by Fedez and Ferragni were 14 and not 150”.
The numbers
“In the hospital at the fair, Instead, thanks to donations from over 6,000 private donors“It was also possible for ordinary citizens to create a real intensive care unit with 157 beds, where 538 patients could be hospitalized and treated,” it continues. “Also as regards the timing of the commissioning of the two structures,” the statement continues, “it must be remembered that from the first patient hospitalized in the train structure of San Raffaele on March 23, 2020, to the patient , who was hospitalized on March 6, 2020 at the fair April 2020, it's only been 14 days, motivated by the different complexity of the interventions and by the absolutely higher number of beds in the clinic at the fair.” “This clarification,” the note concludes, “was an obligation of the Lombardy region to thank once again the 6,000 donors to the Ospedale in Fiera, who With their great sensitivity, they have made it possible to treat and save the lives of hundreds of sick people. This episode of generosity must not be devalued by inaccurate and misleading statements that have little to do with the gestures of solidarity that many Lombards have shown during the pandemic.”
The attack
But what had he written? Fedez on Instagram? Here is the passage challenged by the Region of Lombardy and the Fiera Foundation about the rapper's long attack on the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and in defense of his wife Chiara Ferragni: “During the pandemic, we quickly built an intensive care unit with 150 beds with 4 million euros. Months later, in order to create a similar structure with the same places, the State and the Region of Lombardy spent 10 million euros to treat a third of the people we treated.”