Intensive care, the never-ending battle
SOLIDARITY
Pordenone (c.a.) Businessmen, craftsmen, shopkeepers, small and large associations and a multitude of individual citizens. With their donations, the intensive care unit was able to face the coronavirus emergency. When Dr. Tommaso Pellis touches on this subject, his voice cracks. “This money - he explains - is worth its weight in gold. It comes from companies that are risking going bankrupt, from people who are no longer receiving a wage or that have to pay their mortgage and for whom 30 euros could just as well be 30 thousand. We have even received donations of just 16 euros: it’s all they could afford and they gave it”. A “general thank you” for the moment; a more detailed one will be given publicly as soon as we have the time to reconstruct the list of donations. "It has been extraordinary - says Pellis - They have given us the pride and strength to react. We realise that we have not been left on our own and we want to be up to the task. The value of these donations? The most suitable machinery and equipment have been purchased, not those developed for tenders. Then there is the “manual” solidarity, if it could be called so, the solidarity of “friends of friends”. An example? “I needed a connector for the oxygen - says Dr. Roberto Bigai - I couldn’t do without it. A friend from Concordia Sagittaria arrived: and he made me thirty”.
There is then the “big family” of the hospital to thank, where inevitably I’ll miss out some names because the list is so long. There is the “engineering” of Maurizio Rizzetto and Monica Tajariol, in the procurement office. Pellis then mentions the nursing platform coordinators without whom the shifts and organisation as a whole would flounder; first of all Cinzia Castelalrin, Giudy Giordani who manages the emergency room and 118 and Aurora Lot who manages the operating theatres transformed into Covid intensive care and semi-intensive care units.
Il Gazzettino - Pordenone, April the 8th, 2020
