BOONE (UNITED STATES) (ITALPRESS) – The president of the Lomnardia Region, Attilio Fontana and the councilor for Welfare, Guido Bertolaso, as part of the institutional mission of the Lombardy Region in the United States, visited the home of Samaritan’s Purse, the American organization of the evangelical Church, committed worldwide to combating people’s physical and spiritual suffering. A reality which, in the most critical phase of the pandemic, had offered great help to Lombardy by creating a field hospital in Cremona and supporting the Italian doctors in the ward. “It is a pleasure and an honor – said the president of the Lombardy Region – to be here in the Samaritan’s Purse headquarters.
This visit, which I care a lot about, represents a gesture of gratitude towards people who, without hesitation, in the midst of the Covid emergency, came to our territory to help us. They are professionals who not only built a field hospital in a short time in front of the Cremona hospital, but worked for a few months alongside the Lombard doctors who were on the front line to deal with the health emergency. “This organization – has underlined the Welfare councilor – works in emergency management, for this reason, precisely by virtue of my past, we speak the same language, we have the same intervention methodology and, above all, we know how essential the time factor is in any operation to be carried out standing”. “The one carried out by Samaritan’s Purse in Lombardy – he added – was an operation of great solidarity, collaboration and technical competence. The first reason why we came here is therefore to thank these people.” “They are professionals with truly extraordinary logistics – he added – they are present in many areas of the world such as Ukraine, Gaza, Israel and in Brazil, hit by terrifying floods . We also imagine joint intervention programs with them. The Lombardy Region has a great spirit of solidarity which has always intervened in any crisis situation, therefore, we can work together to organize interventions where there is a need, i.e. in the healthcare field, but also in the broader field of civil protection”.(ITALPRESS).Photo : Lombardy Region Press Office trl/com 22-May-24 15:55 .
