With the aim of ensuring holistic assistance to cancer patients, attentive to the psycho-physical well-being of patients and their families, the Sant’Anna e San Sebastiano hospital of national importance and highly specialized in Caserta inaugurated this morning a Solidarity library, set up in the waiting room of the complex Medical Oncology operational unit, directed by the professor Michele Orditura.
The initiative was born in collaboration with the Italian Red Cross – Caserta Committee, as part of an agreement signed with the Aorn Sant’Anna and San Sebastiano to offer voluntary psycho-social support activities to Oncology and emergency room patients rescue. The Association, which provided both the furnishings and the books, will manage the service on odd days.
The bookcase in the hospital as a sign of home, welcome and humanization was highlighted by the health director of the Caserta hospital, Angela Annecchiarico, who with Orditura emphasized the importance and value of continuous collaboration with third sector associations, as it allows us to more adequately address the requests of patients and their families. THE
the mayor of Caserta, Carlo Marinowho spoke at the inauguration ceremony with the municipal councilor with delegations to Culture and the Right to Health Vincenzo Claudio Battarra, underlined how culture, of which a library is a vehicle, is an aggregating element of a community that identifies itself as such when there is brotherhood and humanity. The president of the Caserta Committee Teresa Natale and the president of the Campania Regional Committee insisted on the principle of humanity as the inspiring source of its associative mission. Stefano Tangredi. In the presence of the medical and nursing team of the Oncology UOC and a significant representation of operators from the Italian Red Cross, the library was blessed by the director of the Diocesan Pastoral of Caserta, don Antonello Giannotti.
