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“This morning, in Perugia, in the area adjacent to the heliport of the Hospital Santa Maria della Misericordia, the operations to install the field hospital by the Army, which accepted the request we made as the Umbrian Region, through Civil Protection, in order to alleviate pressure on the regional health system, given the increase in the number of hospitalizations of patients affected by COVID-19. ”This was reported by the regional councilor, Enrico Melasecche, who thanked, also on behalf of the president of the Donatella Tesei Region, to the Italian Army for “the valuable support it is offering to Umbria and the country, at this very difficult time of emergency.”
The request for the refurbishment of the field hospital was made by the Umbria Region to the Vertice Interforze Operational Command (COI). The assembly operations will continue “h24” and will end on Wednesday, November 11.
The intervention, explains the Region of Umbria, “which is part of the safeguard plan presented by the Department of Health and which will be approved at the next meeting of the regional council, has the collaboration of the regional Civil Protection and the Perugia Hospital itself , and is part of the activities desired by the Minister of Defense, Lorenzo Guerini, managed and coordinated by the IOC to fully support the country in this difficult time dictated by the epidemiological emergency ”.
The Army field hospital, Palazzo Donini underlines, “will offer clinical care services to patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 infection, who fall into the category of so-called” paucisymptomatic “. The structure may have accommodation capacity of about 34 ordinary hospital beds and 3 sub-intensive hospital beds. The care activity will be in charge of doctors, pharmacists, nurses, health logistics operators (OLS) and military health social workers and will have direct contact with the ‘Hospital de Perugia that will put at disposal all the PPE, medicines, medicinal gases and disposable devices necessary for the correct continuation of the healthcare activity, radiodiagnosis and laboratory medicine services, specialized medicine and surgery, intensive care assistance and any emergency / emergency service “.
