In the meeting room of the Cittadella della Salute in Viterboan interesting press conference took place in which it was presented the 2024 edition of the Donate to donate competitionorganized by the volunteering table of the ASL of Viterbo “Donations and health education”.
In the same context, the Viterbo initiatives carried out for were presented Match for life, the second Admo national information and awareness campaign, and the various initiatives that the Volunteering Committee will implement during the month of May. Speakers: The extraordinary commissioner of the Viterbo local health authority, Egisto Bianconi; the provincial AIDO president, Monia Paolini, President of Avis Provincial, Luigi Ottavio Mechelli, the contact person for the Admo Viterbo operational headquarters, Paola Massarelli, the provincial contact person for the Kidney Patients Association, Patrizia Galeotti, the director of the Belcolle Immunotransfusion Service, Silvia Da Ros. the coordinator of the Organ and Tissue Donation Coordination (Dot) of the Viterbo Local Health Authority, Teresa Riccini, the coordinator for the Viterbo Local Health Authority of the “Donations and health education” table, Stefania Stefani.
Over 1000 students and 14 schools from all over Tuscia participating in the 2024 edition of the “Donate to donate” competition, promoted by the Donation and Health Education volunteering table of the Viterbo Local Health Authority, which will take place Thursday 23 May, at 5.30 pm, at the oratory theater of the parish of Saints Valentine and Hilary in Viterbo which Don Emanuele and Bishop Piazza willingly put together for this laudable initiative aimed at promoting the message of organ donation among the student population of primary and lower secondary schools of the Viterbo area. The head of the ASL press office, the journalist Luca Poleggi, managed the meeting. , from a creative point of view, truly surprising. The projects, works and communication tools presented fully interpret the message linked to the donation. They are a precious support for the voluntary associations that operate in the Tuscia area, also because, through the work of the children, it is possible to spread and extend the promotion of organ and tissue donation to their families and their communities. It is a duty to thank all the schools that participated, the managers, the teachers and all the students. Without them, the prize would have no reason to exist.”
During the awards ceremony, the works of the students from the participating schools will be exhibited: Santa Maria del Paradiso in Viterbo; Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, with the Vignanello and Vallerano groups; Franciscan Sisters of Civita Castellana; Pio Fedi, Vitorchiano, Celleno and Grotte Santo Stefano complexes; Anna Molinaro groups of Golfarelli, Mosse and Zepponami; Alessandro Manzoni from Montefiascone; Monks, complexes of Soriano nel Cimino and Gallese; Saint Lucia Filippini of Montefiascone. For a total of 1072 children who participated.
“Thanks – conclude the representatives of Admo, Aido, Avis and the Kidney Patients Association – also goes to the Rotary Club Bolsena and Duchy of Castro, in the person of the president Eugenio Cesarini, for donating a gadget which we will deliver to all the participants, to and to the MIUR, in particular to the professor Angela Proietti”.
During the conference, the 2024 edition of “Mach 4 Live“, the Admo national information and awareness campaign which will see the Viterbo association involved in the pursuit of a single objective: to enroll new potential donors in the Italian Bone Marrow Donor Registry (IBMDR), to give life expectancy to all patients in waiting for transplant. They are in Italy, there are 1800 of them and many are children.
“Admo Viterbo – explained Massarelli – dedicates Mach 2024 to Luca Quintili, frontman of the musical group ‘Luca ei Blue moon’, who passed away after a long illness that left him no escape.
The invitation, therefore, is to become bone marrow donors, Sunday 26 May inside the Città a Colori in Valle Faul, from 3pm to 7pm, where, in the camper with the Italian Red Cross and Admo license plates, the medical and nursing staff of the Viterbo Local Health Authority will be present. With a simple blood test, it will be possible to enter the database of bone marrow donors. As per tradition, in addition to Admo, also Avis, Kidney and Aido Patient Associations, and the ASL professionals, will be present at the City of Color to spread the message of organ and tissue donation to as many people as possible”.
“I want to thank personally, and on behalf of the entire health authority – concluded the extraordinary commissioner of the Viterbo local health authority, Egisto Bianconi -, the voluntary associations, for years, engaged together with our professionals in the participation table is a synergy that has been created with the schools of Tuscia, with the school directors, the teachers, the children, their parents it gives us hope, because we are creating a ‘young’ path that we intend to support and develop over time, so that the issues associated with donation grow and are increasingly felt and experienced throughout our province” The relationship between ASL and associations continued Bianconi are creating a relationship of closeness with the health problems and needs of the people. And raising awareness among young people ensures that new emergency situations do not arise regarding the discomfort of young people
