BARI – Any health emergencies that may concern the G7 leaders, or in any case those of greater severity, will be entrusted to the Bari Polyclinic. Other ordinary needs will instead be assigned to the Perrino in Brindisi. In either case, starting from Tuesday 11th there will be limitations on ordinary activity to guarantee 24-hour assistance to delegations, journalists and staff otherwise employed in the service of the summit.
This, in a nutshell, is the health plan that the Region has prepared for the meeting in Borgo Egnazia, and which the head of cabinet Giuseppe Catalano and the director of the Health department, Vito Montanaro, illustrated yesterday in an operational meeting at Palazzo Chigi where the local device was integrated with the other forces in the field. Starting from military healthcare, which will act as a collector of the specialist needs indicated by the various delegations. Governor Michele Emiliano had already illustrated the general lines in Tuesday’s meeting at the prefecture in Brindisi, obtaining the first operational indications. Health services will in any case be coordinated directly from the control room of Palazzo Chigi: the local structures will have to carry out the directives channeled through the prefecture.
The organizational details are confidential, for understandable reasons, but there are aspects that impact ordinary assistance and are therefore already known. As early as Tuesday 11th, the Polyclinic will have to empty and keep three departments available (an intensive care unit, a surgery department and a medicine department), while the Perrino will make other low-intensity departments available, starting with orthopedics. In the organization…
