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BOLOGNA – Camilla Benedetti, 31, is the first vaccinated in Bologna. He is a doctor at Usca, the continuity care units that are at the forefront of the fight against Covid. At 2 p.m., as scheduled, he received the Pfizer Covid vaccine at the bus station. To his right the director of the Ausl Paolo Bordon, to the left the mayor of Bologna Virginio Merola and the regional health councilor Raffaele Donini. “I am a future GP, in a very short time I will finish my training course – says Benedetti – since we are in this situation I have chosen to work at Usca and give my small contribution but I also believe that it is important, like many other colleagues . I chose to be a local doctor, it is a great passion of mine since I was at the University. He will also be a vaccinator in the coming weeks and months.
Camilla Benedetti, doctor from Usca, is the first vaccinated in Bologna
The first vaccinated in the region
Eleven health workers, six women and five men, are the first vaccinated against Covid in Emilia-Romagna. Their names: Andrea Vercelli, an emergency doctor from Piacenza; Maria Chiara Parisini, pediatrics in Langhirano, in the province of Parma; Alessandro Zerbini, responsible for the structure of autoimmunity, allergology and innovative biotechnology to Reggio emilia; Alda reggiani, nurse to Modena; Noemi melloni, Usca doctor of Ferrara; Camilla Benedetti, doctor Usca to Bologna; Stefano pasquali, Director of Medicine to Imola; Giovanna Giubelli, nurse to Ravenna; Emilia biguzzi, health assistant a Forlì-Cesena; Carlo Biagetti, doctor of the AUS of Romagna. Together with them, always at 2 p.m., Afro Salsi, geriatrician, Coordinator of Care for the Elderly of the Asp Bologna, vaccinated in Ave Lercaro of Bologna. “After a long wait, this day has finally arrived. A historic day, in which we can really start and see the light at the end of the tunnel ”, affirm the president of the Region, Stefano Bonaccini, and the regional adviser for health policies. Raffale Donini. The first phase of the vaccination campaign is reserved for those who work in the health field (92,600 employees) and in facilities for the elderly and disabled (84,600 people), for a total of approximately 180,000 professionals who will be vaccinated in the next weeks, including patients from Cra.
The arrival of vaccines in the city
A blue and white box and the pen that writes “Emilia Romagna”. Here they are, the 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine destined for the region. The cargo arrived at Marconi airport on Saturday night and this morning was transported (and escorted) by the Army and Carabinieri to the Bellaria hospital in Bologna, on the outskirts of the city, for distribution to all Ausl. Waiting for him, among others, the regional health adviser Raffaele Donini: “A significant and concrete first step,” he said.
Anti-Covid vaccines, the long journey of Emilia-Romagna
Arrival at the Marconi airport in the evening, transfer to the Bellaria hospital, distribution to all local health authorities in the region and, from 2 pm, administration to 975 health workers. Here, in pictures, is the long day of the anti-Covid vaccines in Emilia-Romagna. The first stage of a massive campaign.
Asl cars from all over Emilia Romagna also arrived at the Bellaria, escorted by the traffic police, took the vaccines to all the provinces. The first vaccinations began at 2 in the afternoon, they were received by doctors and nurses. In Bologna, the campaign began at the bus station with 225 doses, destined for health workers and vaccinators, but also for guests and operators of the Cardinal Lercaro nursing home (50 doses). Here are the doses for the other areas: 50 in Piacenza, 100 in Parma, 100 in Reggio Emilia, 150 in Modena, 25 in Imola, 50 in Ferrara and 225 in the territory of Romagna Ausl.
Bonaccini: “Then we will defeat the virus”
There is emotion, let’s not hide that those who lived on the front line this terrible year that I hope we will leave behind very soon in a few days, have such “memories” that sometimes one wonders how we even manage to handle a situation. so dramatic and unprecedented. I think for the whole country, for the world, it is an important day, “Emilia-Romagna President Stefano Bonaccini told Rainews 24.” An important day, because that vaccination operation that allows us, today, to see a light at the end of the tunnel that is very far away but that in the coming months will get closer and closer. It will be the vaccines that, next year, will allow us to defeat the virus. Do not impede its circulation. but to prevent people from getting sick or, as happens all too often, even from abandoning life ”.
