First house of the community in via Garibaldi in April
The announcement of the mayor Conti: closer to the socio-health needs of citizens. In the budget 140 thousand euros to cover the cost of the additional hours of general practitioners
PISA. “The first house of the community in the Pisan area will be in via Garibaldi, a fundamental service for the Pisan citizens, an objective achieved thanks to the political will of our administration and to a collegial work that involved several subjects”, announces the mayor Michele Conti. In the Community House, citizens are taken care of by coordinated multi-professional communities: the new structures of the assistance hospital still work and filter on the territory to avoid improper access to give a very requested assistance service. This hub will be located in the local health authorities in via Garibaldi.
“I am very satisfied – continues the mayor – that the assembly of the Health Society has approved the establishment of six Health Homes, now called the community, in the Pisan territory, two of which in the municipality of Pisa: one in via Garibaldi and another in Marina di Pisa in the headquarters of the Public Assistance today. It had been talked about for years, but neglect had never been realized: as a municipal administration we had been asking for it for some time, aware of the needs of many fellow citizens. For this reason, in agreement with the management of the North-West Tuscany Company, so that it would become a concrete reality they were also present economically ».
The Municipality has foreseen 140 thousand euros in the 2022 budget to cover the cost of the additional hours of general practitioners for the activity that will take place in the community house. «A commitment that we have made for the next three years – underlines the mayor – precisely to ensure that, alongside the resources of the Pnrr for the construction of the structures, there are also resources to ensure the presence of medical services as early as next year. My hope is that as early as next April it will finally be able to open at the Community House in the city, in via Garibaldi, and subsequently in Marina di Pisa “.
“A goal – continues Conti -, I would like to underline it, which we will achieve thanks to the great work carried out by Gianna Gambaccini, who since his inauguration as councilor and president of the Health Society has made a great effort to reach this goal, to make his sensitivity and professional experience available to our council and the community ».
The community houses requested to be the first social center for citizens’ requests. “We know well – says the mayor – that on the one hand the aging of the resident population and on the other hand the new and pressing needs that have emerged in these years of pandemic have strengthened the need for healthcare that is ever closer to citizens. He has been asking for some time that a structure will be introduced in Pisa that would enrich our territorial health, it could possibly require an emergency room in our large hospital, where requests that are not exactly appropriate are often concentrated “.
A multidisciplinary and multi-professional team will work in the community house made up of general practitioners, pediatricians of free choice, nurses, other health professionals, social and administrative staff who guarantee the overall care of the person. “It can therefore be the right place – adds the mayor – for those requests for purification, perhaps on account, but necessary and urgent for families who may not turn to the large hospital but to centers so close to home and which still offer medical and nursing services general medicine, specialist outpatient consultations, as well as administrative functions where to deal with bureaucratic procedures “.
Francesco Loi
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