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March 22, 2020 "There are no alibis: we are giving you all the guarantees, including security and tranquility for your families, to really give your best". Guido Bertolaso, consultant to the Lombard governor Attilio Fontana, launches a "call general "to all the doctors and nurses needed to start the large resuscitation hub dedicated to Covid patients being set up within the Milan Fair. "The Civil Protection Department - explained Bertolaso in a video on Facebook - has issued a very important call which calls for the immediate hiring of 300 doctors with the most important specializations, which are also useful to us: anesthesiologists, resuscitators, experts in medicine emergency, resuscitation capis, intensive and sub-intensive therapy, but not only: even those who do not know how to intubate a patient can be helpful and help, so they can apply and ask to be involved in this initiative. it is not even badly paid, there is room and board, transportation, the right to leave your administration if you are a public health employee. So there are all the possibilities to come and help. "Bertolaso recalled that it is also possible to apply on www.ospitalfieramilano.it: "Go to the site - he said - find the registration form and we are waiting for you. Coming to Lombardy today to help out means knowing better the symptoms, the underhand behavior of this virus. This is not a war, it is a guerrilla war, because the virus changes something every day and we must be able to anticipate it to fight and defeat it, so working today in Lombardy means doing a training that will then be very useful also in the rest of Italy, because the fear is that this situation does not only concern a part of our country but that it can also extend, as it is already doing, everywhere in our beloved boot ". "I - he recalled - came from Africa to help out right now in Italy. I'll wait for you, come and help me out. Remember what Albert Camus said in a book that has never been so relevant, The plague: ' There are men and women who failing to be saints strive to be doctors. "
The first modules of the large resuscitation hub at the Milan Fair will be open within the next week
Bertolaso also announced that the first modules of the large resuscitation hub inside the pavilions of the Fiera di Milano could open "by the end of next week" by showing the new hospital project in a video on Facebook. "The workers are already at work, we work 24 hours a day, day and night, belly on the ground. We are finding the equipment around the world. A great team game that is working and that makes us say that, by the end of next week, we are optimistic about imagining the opening of the first four modules of this large resuscitation center "explained Bertolaso.
The project will then go ahead in its realization up to more than 200-250 intensive and sub-intensive care beds: "It will be a large structure equipped with all the diagnostic services for a center of this level - said Bertolaso -. We did not want to create a lazaretto, sheds with camp beds where to put those who had no more hope and destined to die. The opposite: we want to fight all the way to the last drop of blood, sweat of effort to be able to win this dramatic war all together " .