If it were due to unfriendly weather that raises doubts, summer is now knocking on the doors and it is already time for the Romagna Local Health Authority to raise the medical alert. Rimini is preparing for the season in every sector and the healthcare system for its part has already put the gears into operation which in a few days will raise the emergency-urgency and territorial assistance structure to its maximum potential. Starting with the tourist medical guard, for which in recent days the Company has determined the use of 33 professionals who will take up service from Saturday 8 June and will remain in the area for three months, until 8 September. The increase in ad hoc staff to cope with the physiological increase in requests for services dictated by tourist flows is also accompanied by a widespread distribution across the territory: Rimini district and Riccione district.
THE MAP
OF THE PRINCIPALS
As regards the Rimini district, the tourist medical guard will be operational in Igea Marina in via Ovidio 99, in Viserba in via Mazzini 22, in Rimini in via Coletti 141/e, via Tiberio 43, via Tripoli 193/d, Vicolo San Gregorio 33, in Rivazzurra in via Pegli 1 and in Miramare in via Locatelli. In the Riccione district, however, the clinics for the service will be in Cattolica, in via Carducci 157, in Misano in via Litoranea Sud 40/f, in Riccione in viale San Martino 48, in viale Dante 151, in via Flaminia 1-1 /b (for pediatric care)-25. The assistance will be directly accessible in a variable time slot from one clinic to another from 9am to 7pm.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
A strengthening of the tourist medical services which will complement the real novelty of this summer, i.e. the debut at the hard test of the Rimini summer for the new Cau for taking charge of lower priority cases. The cooperation between the structures (already active in Novafeltria, Santarcangelo, Bellaria, Cattolica and Rimini) and the emergency room of the ‘Infermi’ hospital in Rimini “will be maximum”, as guaranteed by the director of the PS Tiziana Perin (in the photo above To the right). “We are facing another summer having to deal with the same old problem of the lack of staff for emergencies – attacks Perin -. This is why for us it was essential to carefully plan workers’ holidays without neglecting the needs of patients It is true that this year the Cau will give us a big hand in taking care of patients with less serious pathologies, but this does not take away from the fact that the distribution of resources throughout the summer period was made considering a reinforcement especially in the vicinity of the patients. great events”. Pink night, August 15th, the appointments under the lens in which the emergency room will be reinforced with staff by calling on those who will be available to work overtime and counting on the help, for example, of colleagues from other departments of the hospital “such as neurology, medicines, pediatric surgery” lists Perin again. Finally “the ‘night time’ will be strengthened – concludes the director of the PS – with an extra doctor for the ‘critical’ shift of 6-12pm, when usually many more users flock to the emergency room for the most disparate pathologies”.
HEALTH TRANSPORT
As regards the first link in the assistance chain, this year too the emergency vehicle fleet has confirmed 7 additional ambulances available to the province throughout the summer, with an equal increase in personnel on board the vehicles. means. The use of an additional medical vehicle is still being evaluated by the emergency health coordination, especially for the periods with the highest tourist concentration.
