Naples, healthcare in 2023: all the news in assistance
The Cardarelli enter the future with a 2.5 million robot that assists neurosurgeons in extremely delicate oncological operations, i.e. to treat vertebral and brain neoplasms. An important hi-tech turning point: the hospital is the third in Italy to equip itself with such an advanced system. «Millimeter precision», underlines the manager Antonio D’Amore and Claudio Schönauer, the professional leading the medical team, with the goal of reducing the margin of error and making incisions minimal. But this is not the only novelty in Neapolitan healthcare to come, expected between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023.
“The Vanvitelli Polyclinic – anticipates the general manager Ferdinand Russo – is the first to apply artificial intelligence in spine surgery and is ready to activate the beds in his dental clinic, one of the few public facilities for the care of teeth and maxillofacial pathologies”. Then there is the ocular CT scan for diabetes, which has just been inaugurated, and an MRI is on the way, another MOC, the pet CT scan, two gamma cameras, as well as the extension of tests for natal and neonatal genetic diagnosis, useful to identify rare diseases immediately; while an accelerator for radiotherapy, the Boron neutron capture therapy, capable of playing only tumor cells, is financed with Pnrr funds and to be acquired within a “maximum two years”. Everyone’Ascalesi the new radiotherapy, with two machines costing 10 million, is expected to be operational from January, al Easter an additional Nuclear Medicine machine is planned. instead, to the CTO and to the Cotugno work is underway to install two new MRIs, which have already been purchased: one to treat patients with cerebral hemorrhage and for the management of multiple traumas; the other mainly for the diagnosis of meningitis and encephalitis, and a further objective of the manager Anna Iervolino is to cut waiting lists. To the Monaldi the focus is on lung transplants, with collaborations with Padua, Milan and Turin, and on developing telemedicine. Distance care increasingly enhanced also in ASL Napoli 3 Sud, from Castellammare to Portici; while VillaBethany announces the “telebooking” of visits and exams, the reorganization of the block and operating rooms and a latest generation magnetic resonance.
Laparoscopic cholecystectomies with post-operative stay of less than 3 days, femoral neck fracture repair within 2 are the promises made by Mario Iervolinodirector ofAslNaples 2 North, which goes from Pozzuoli to Giugliano, from Ischia to Procida. Last but not least, the capital of Campania. With the general manager of the ASL Ciro Verdolivaindicating the redevelopment works in progress: appendix Incurable that’s all’Announced the main ones (budgets of 65 and 26.5 million), but also al St. Paul, to the Loreto Seato the Saint Gennaro (destined to become a hospice with 12 beds, plus two new residences for the elderly with 18 beds each).
Electronic folder and more drills from living (with the help of the robot) al Federico II Polyclinic under the aegis of Joseph Longo. Enhanced stroke unit, trauma center to be built next year also in the university hospital, and work started in the coronary unit for the infarction network. “Emergency assistance must be further strengthened to qualify the training of students and postgraduates”, he underlines Maria Triassi, Director of the University School of Medicine. And al Santobono Pausilipon 2023 will be the year of laying the first stone of the new hospital in the east area of Naples. And they will open the new pediatric burn center and the new dialysis center.