Interview of the Week with Mario Valgimigli, President of Asp City of Siena –
For the Interview of the Week of Sunday 9 January, broadcast at 12 o’clock, to the microphone of Antenna Radio Esse Dr. Mario Valgimigli, president “Asp City of Siena“, The Public Company of Personal Services, to try to clarify the services provided by Asp in this particularly delicate moment for our city, due to the dizzying increase in new cases of Covid-19, although fortunately, in most of the positivity, they are people without symptoms or with mild symptoms.
With Mario Valgimigli, we tried to understand what the Asp City of Siena is doing, to face this situation that is creating considerable inconvenience to citizens, due to the delays in antigen tests, given the enormous amount of requests.
To meet the requests, the ASP city of Siena has increased the activities of rapid unsanitary tests at the Municipal Pharmacies 1 and 2 by 24 hours a week, and by 15 hours a week at the Municipal Pharmacy 3..
The aim is to provide an efficient service and to respond, as soon as precise indications arrive, to what is requested by the Tuscany Region with the order of the President of the Giunta n.66 of 28 December 2021. To carry out swabs at the Municipal Pharmacies, ii citizens must book on the institutional website of the ASP city of Siena at the following address www.asp.siena.it “Booking Portal” section. Pursuant to the provisions indicated in the memorandum of understanding of 5 August 2021 – relating to the execution in the pharmacy of the rapid unhygienic tests for the detection of Covid-19 – it is good to know that to access the service, the citizen must not have fever higher than 37.5 and must not have respiratory symptoms. In relation to the tracing of positive cases – with a note from the Ministry of Health n. 69100 of 30 December 2021, the passage that indicated: “must not have had, in the last 10 days, close contacts with people affected by COVID-19 has been eliminated “; therefore now the tracing of positive cases can also take place in pharmacies and can be carried out on citizens who have had “close and direct contacts” with people affected by Covid-19. However, when the citizen must ascertain his positivity behind the prescription of the general practitioner, he is invited to carry out the test at Drive Through and in other health facilities, not in the pharmacy.
In relation to the end of isolation and quarantine tests, Dr. Valgimigli explained to Antenna Radio Esse that at the moment the tests in agreement for the determination of the end of isolation and quarantine they cannot be performed in Municipal Pharmacies, but in the event that the user still requests the test to be carried out in a private regime (implementing memorandum of understanding art.5 of Legislative Decree 105 of 23 July 2021), the Municipal Pharmacy carries out the test, the data on the regional App #Insalute and issue the test certificate.
Any other measure – such as end of quarantine, isolation or other – is not the responsibility of pharmacies.
Vaccinations – Parallel to the tampon activity, at the Municipal Pharmacy n. 3 in piazzale Carlo Rosselli, a facility dedicated to anti Covid-19 vaccinations was created where vaccination sessions related to the amount of vaccines available are performed every week.
Also in this case, booking is possible from the website www.asp.siena.it in the special section “Booking Portal”.
FPP2 masks – The Commissarial Structure and the trade associations have reached an agreement for the sale of FFP2 masks at the controlled price of 75 euro cents each.
Asp city of Siena, with its municipal pharmacies, will also join the agreement as soon as it is signed.