at Santi Giovanni e Paolo, music opened the Health History Festival
It was a magical evening for the Venetians, with the basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo overflowing, and the voice of the “Big Vocal Orchestra” singing the desire for life and health of the city. “This is the gift of the Venice Hospital – said the Director General of Ulss 3 Serenissima, Edgardo Contato – to the Venice that loves its hospital, that accompanies its rebirth, that sees it as a place of assistance that is not only effective but also wonderful. Immersing yourself in an evening of music and beauty is a way of reiterating and looking together at what has been done in recent years in the Civil Hospital. Here at Santi Giovanni e Paolo we recently inaugurated the new Gaggia Pavilion, after the Jona , and here together with the Veneto Region we are planning huge modernization works, which already have investments of 61 million euros. Here the Casa della Salute for the city of Venice is born, and here telemedicine is active as in very few other hospitals in Italy , here the great instruments have been gradually renewed with the introduction of latest generation technologies, here people of great professionalism and humanity work. mind, with this concert and the Festival that will last all next week, that treatment and medicine, especially in our city, are also beauty, history, knowledge, civilization “.
The concert of the “Big Vocal Orchestra” opened yesterday evening the first “Festival of the history of health”, a new proposal in Venice and the world of health. The “Health History Festival” will unfold through a whole week of appointments and events – at the Venice Hospital and beyond – to focus on one of the most important legacies of our civilization, namely the care of the sick person. “Even before the pandemic that hit us – underlines the General Director of Ulss 3 Serenissima Edgardo Contato – the Civil Hospital of Venice has become one of the places where, with more depth and more intensity, a culture of health has been made, The idea of a real ‘health history festival’ could only be born here, this entire week of meetings, exhibitions, debates, conferences, concerts and guided tours, linked by the red thread of health care of yesterday, today and of tomorrow”. “We are committed – adds the Director Contato – to keep alive the bond that binds us to the medicine of the centuries of the Serenissima: even then in this city the care and assistance of the sick person were at the forefront in Europe; and then in every century the history of medicine in Venice offers us exemplary events, shining examples of professionals and doctors, chapters of the progress of health that we must not forget, and which must indeed be stimuli for health care, for doctors, for today’s hospitals. and tomorrow “.
The “Health History Festival”, which opened with yesterday’s concert, will close on Sunday 9 October, with the Venice Hospital open to visitors, and with the final concert in the church of San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti, the church of the Hospital . But the Health Festival also offers a very rich list of other initiatives: the complete program is available on the site www.scuolagrandesanmarco.it.