The team of Pope Giovanni XXII from Bergamo greeted the 80 Emergency operators who for weeks worked alongside him to assist Covid patients in the field hospital. Structure of excellence built in record time by the National Alpine Association within the Fiera area of Bergamo.
Inaugurated on April 7, in 49 days welcomed 120 patients, the last one discharged just last Sunday, May 24th. Patients who came from both the emergency room and intensive care. The garrison, which has lost only one patient, has committed 277 between medical, health and logistic operators.
"Happy to have been able to give our contribution in an extremely difficult situation - he has declared Rossella Miccio, president of Emergency - this structure is becoming a model. We hope there is no further need, but we are always close to Bergamo, you can always count on us ".
The comments of the general director of the ASST Pope John XXIII are also grateful Maria Beatrice Stasi"It was a very positive experience, a model of collaboration between very different realities and a precious help also to allow the hospitals of the province to restart, bringing part of the Covid areas back to Covid free areas. - has explained - today is not the end for this facility, but a new beginning: we have about 2.000 people who we have admitted to our facilities and who we want to follow in the necessary checks after discharge. "
A few days ago the commissioner Gallery in fact, he announced that the field hospital will not be dismantled. It will be converted back to follow up clinic for sick people Covid-19. The whole area has already been sanitized. Beds and equipment remain available and ready for use in the event that shelters need to be restored in the future.
Il project on behalf Surviving Covid joins the wider initiative Covid19_lab, in partnership with FROM, which intends to systematize the collection and analysis of clinical and health data of Covid patients. In the new structure they can be performed interventions rehabilitation e screening methods, is already equipped with CT and radiographic equipment and spirometry equipment will soon be installed. Also provided is the ability to perform withdrawals which will then be tried in the laboratories of Pope John. The expectation is to examine an average of 36 patients per day.
Also sorted at the Fair vaccinations, usually performed at the Borgo Palazzo territorial socio-sanitary Presidium. The Fair is much more accessible to citizens, has a large free parking lot and all the space necessary for the distancing that must be respected for many months to come.
