What will happen to the former Gallarate barracks? The Valle Olona Asst has announced the closure of its activities, which started in December 2021 first as a swab center and then, from January 2022, for the anti-Covid vaccination campaign. On days of greatest need, Up to 40 lines were functioning in the warehouse transformed into a vaccination clinic.
Then, once the crisis was over, the activity remained centralized in the former Air Force depot but expanded all vaccinations. Today the social health director John Tremamondo announced that the vaccination center at the barracks is closing and that the activity will be relocated to various community homes to get closer to the citizens.
The structure, which had been taken on free loan by the Ministry of Defense, returns in the availability of the Lombardy Region which appointed Areuthe Emergency Emergency Agency, rresponsible for the creation process of the centre.
Last December the Region announced the allocation of 18 million euros to invest in the project. According to the timetable, Areu should have presented the project by February 28th aimed at acquiring the real estate complex of the former Air Force Barracks, called ‘Ex 2nd Central Depot’ in the Municipality of Gallarate and owned by the State Property, to build the Gallarate Hub hospital. The plan should also have included the collaboration of ATS Insubria, ASST Valle Olona and the IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Foundation for the management of the modules, equipment and equipment owned or in use by the Foundation itself.
Welfare councilor Guido Bertolaso had declared: «The large complex of the former logistics warehouse will be appropriately renovated and will act as a center for the training and training of personnel, as a logistics center and laboratory for testing new methodologies and technologies for approaching and managing various emergencies. The center will also represent the reference hub for prompt activation to be able to increase in a timely, planned and progressive manner the supply of high-tech intensive and semi-intensive care beds in case of need”.
With the exit of Valle Olona, the future of the Gallaratese center remains cloudy. Areu makes it known that all the documentation and the entire practice is being examined by DG Welfare which will have to decide whether to proceed with the state property.
