European Covid-19 funding

European Covid-19 funding

The Ministry of Health continues its activities against Covid-19, headed by the former Unit for completing the vaccination campaign and for the adoption of other measures to combat the pandemic.
Through the projects indicated below, it was possible to recover resources for partial reimbursement of the anticipated expenses with funds placed in the special accounts.

Project n.1

Covid-19 epidemiological emergency: Sars-Cov2 vaccination plan, healthcare personnel recruitment
Source of funding: PON Governance and Institutional Capacity 2014-2020

• Beneficiary: former Extraordinary Commissioner Covid-19, former UCCV, now Ministry of Health.

• Duration: 2020-2023

• Resources assigned: €274,875,323.99

• Axis: 1

• Specific objective: 1.6

• Action: 1.6.1

• Directed by the Managing Authority

• CUP: D59J20006680006

The project activity is inspired by the public procedure put in place by the Extraordinary Commissioner pro tempore to recruit doctors, nurses and healthcare assistants available to participate in the vaccination plan against SARS-CoV-2 through the identification of designated work administration agencies to the selection and hiring of the aforementioned, pursuant to paragraph 460 of law 30 December 2020, n. 178.

The project, eligible for financing with the resources allocated to the Specific Objective 1.6 “Strengthening the National Health Service (NHS) in response to health emergencies – Action 1.6.1 Interventions to strengthen the organization of public health structures in response to health crises” of the Program National Operational “Governance and Institutional Capacity” therefore sets the objective of recruiting additional healthcare personnel to those ordinarily present in the Health Authorities of the National Health Service and in Hospitals to be used in the execution of the national vaccination campaign. This is in order to strengthen the operational infrastructure of the NHS directly involved in the vaccination activity, reaching the highest number of subjects who can be vaccinated in the shortest possible time through an incisive and widespread action across the entire national territory.

Specifically, the resources will be used to finance the reimbursement of extraordinary expenses incurred to remunerate the services offered by the employment agencies responsible for identifying healthcare personnel as well as the professional activity performed by the healthcare workers themselves.

Project n.2

Actions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic through the purchase of doses of vaccines – Molise Region
Source of funding: Molise Regional Operational Program FESR-FSE 2014-2020

• Former UCCV beneficiary. Now Ministry of Health.

• Duration 2020-2023

• Resources assigned: €5,955,379.36

• Axis: 1

• Specific objective 1.6

• Action 1.6.1

• Directed by the Managing Authority – POR Molise FESR/FSE

• CUP: D19I23000350006

The project is part of the initiatives financed by ERDF/ESF funds made available to the Molise Regional Operational Programme. In particular, the “Purchase of vaccines in the Molise Region” project is financed under Action 1.6.1 “Investments necessary to strengthen the capacity of the health services complex to respond to the crisis caused by the epidemiological emergency”, and is aimed at reimbursing the expenses incurred for the purchase of anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, necessary for the execution of the “Anticovid vaccination plan” of the Extraordinary Commissioner pro tempore, setting the objectives of drastically reducing the circulation of the virus, preventing mortality from contagion and achieve herd immunity in the shortest possible time.

The project activity, specifically, concerns the purchase of vaccine doses distributed in the Molise Region in order to contribute to achieving the objective of mass vaccination of the entire national territory to successfully complete the vaccination plan.

Project n.3

Strengthening of the National Health Service Phase 2
Source of funding: PON Governance and Institutional Capacity 2014 – 2020

• Beneficiary: former Extraordinary Commissioner Covid-19 – Unit for the completion of the vaccination campaign and for the adoption of other measures to combat the pandemic. Now Ministry of Health.

• Duration 2020-2023

• Initial resources assigned: €60,641,265.81

• Resources remodeled to: €55,848,941.82

• Axis: 2

• Specific objective 2.3

• Action 2.3.1

• Directed by the Managing Authority

• CUP: D59C20001350006

This activity, financed with the resources of the European Regional Development Fund allocated to the National Operational Program “Governance and Institutional Capacity 2014 – 2020 within the scope of Specific Objective 2.3 of Axis 2 – Action 2.3.1 “Interventions to strengthen technological equipment of public health structures in response to health crises” provides for interventions to strengthen e-health through the implementation of the resilience of health systems through the strengthening of the technological equipment in use by national health structures, (e.g. multiparametric monitors, multiparametric monitors from transport, electric aspirators, intensive care monitoring units, portable ultrasound scanners, electrocardiographs).

The implementation perspective within which the project initiative is based is very broad and has as its aim the overall strengthening of the National Health Service, the territorial assistance network and the functions of the Ministry of Health through the increase in human and instrumental resources .

The expected result consists in the improvement of the multilevel governance of the management of similar emergency situations as well as deriving from a possible and further resurgence of the same Covid-19 pandemic, with the concomitant participation of technical bodies, central administrations, institutions, local authorities and territorial health structures .

Last update date:
April 19, 2024