PALERMO – For 12 months they will work in hospitals and polyclinics of the Palermo ASP, ensuring hospitality, assistance and support, especially to vulnerable users. They are the 268 young people of the Universal Civil Service selected, out of over 900 applications, for the project “Information in circulation” of the Provincial Health Authority of the Sicilian capital.
This morning, the first moment of contact with the public administration at the Politeama in Palermo, where they met the regional health councilor, Giovanna Volo, the general managers of the strategic planning department, Salvatore Iacolino, of Dasoe, Salvatore Requirez, and the leaders of the ASP of Palermo, the general director, Daniela Faraoni and the health director, Francesco Cerrito.
“This is an important step towards a great collaboration – says Councilor Volo -. The more young people, in particular those who have joined the Civil Service, can make a contribution to the population who need the services provided by the Health Service, the better it is for all of us, who can count on their support activity”.
“Public health belongs to everyone. There are aspects that can make it complex, such as the use of IT, and the possibility that some young people can help elderly and frail subjects to access these tools is an extremely positive fact. We hope that this is the beginning of an increasingly close collaboration, in which the population can find comfort in the help that young people can give them”.
“We are reopening our doors, after sixteen years, to a very young audience of our population – says the general director of Asp Palermo, Daniela Faraoni – that approaches a human experience that is also a work experience. The Universal Civil Service implies ethical and moral values that will be reflected in the contribution to our organization”.
“Today, the presence of the institutions testifies to our participation in the life and the growth of new generations. It is a way to immediately start a path of alliance between institutions and young people, only in this way will we be able to orient the future to make this Sicily of ours grow”.
The selected young people will work five days a week for 25 hours and, in addition to receiving a monthly allowance of 507.30 euros, they will have, like all those who perform universal Civil Service, a 15% reserve of places in public competitions and recognition of university internships “in the specific area of intervention”.
The aim of the project, carried out by the Health Authority together with the co-designing body Aress Fabiola, is to improve knowledge and access to social, welfare and health services in the area, aimed at the weaker sections of the population, particularly the elderly and disabled.
In a province like the one “governed” by the ASP of Palermo, where out of a population of 1,215,453 citizens (including residents of Lampedusa and Linosa), 22% are elderly (268,610), the contribution of the young people of the Universal Civil Service will be particularly useful.
Of the 268 selected, 142 will be employed in the city’s structures, while 126 in the province. In the five hospitals of the ASP, namely Ingrassia in Palermo, Civico di Partinico, Madonna dell’Alto in Petralia Sottana, dei Bianchi in Corleone and Cimino in Termini Imerese, 78 young people will work, while the others will be engaged in territorial assistance centers (Pta ) and polyclinics, but also in the psychology service, in the mental health department and in health education activities.
Among the tasks that will be assigned are also those of supporting the operators of the Cup (Unified Reservation Centre), preparation of simple and easy-to-understand information material, selection of forms to be given to users and identification of the most requested information.
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