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Challenging the crisis: ths IZSV’s example

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The Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSV) not only managed to balance the books but was also able to get a final budget for 2012, approved at the end of May, with a gain of more than two milions of euro. Such a result is no small thing, considering the difficult period that the public administration is dealing with. Two millions of euro represents almost 5 per cent of the whole production, with a profit similar to that of an industry.

This gain comes as a consequence of an increase in the activities (9%) and, most of all, of strict cost avoidance, with particular attention to the expenses due to personnel, non-healthcare goods and external collaborations. All these successes were the result of the industriousness of the whole staff and of a careful planning based on concrete criteria, following a course pursued by all the managing authorities within the IZSV.

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