Health: from January CRI and Crocerossine volunteers will be operating at the Campus Bio-Medico Polyclinic in Rome in the new DEA

 The signing of the agreement on 5 December, on World Volunteer Day

Thursday 5 December at 10.45

Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Via Álvaro del Portillo, 21 – Rome

Conference Hall PRABB

Rome, 03 December 2019 - It will be active from January 2020 the agreement between the Red Cross-Rome Metropolitan Area and the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital of Rome which provides for the free collaboration of 30 graduate and/or student volunteer nurses and 30 volunteers from the CRI, the Rome Metropolitan Area Committee, who will be active in the new Emergency and Acceptance Department of the university hospital in the capital.

The agreement will be signed on Thursday 5 December, at the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, by the President of the Red Cross Metropolitan Area of ​​Rome Capital, Deborah Diodati, and by the Director General of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, Paolo Sormani.

The choice of date is not accidental: World Volunteer Day. The Provincial Inspector of Volunteer Nurses will also be present at the signing, Sister Eleonora Brugnone, who, together with the Director of the Healthcare Professions Management and Associate Professor of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Daniela Tartaglini, organized a conference to explore the forms of interaction between volunteers and health structures in favor of the quality of reception of people in hospital. 

The meeting - during which the memorandum of understanding will be signed - will have the title "Together to welcome, comfort and assist the citizen in emergency situations - urgency” and inaugurates the beginning of a collaboration based on shared principles: welcoming, comforting and assisting citizens in emergency-urgency situations.

The meeting will begin at 10.45 with speeches by the President of the University, Felice Barela, by the President of CRI Lazio, Adriano De Nardis, of the President of the Metropolitan Area Committee of Rome Capital Deborah Diodati, of the IIVV National Deputy Inspector Sister Fabiola Meleo, who will introduce the day's work. The reports of the General Director of the Polyclinic will follow, Paolo Sormani, of the Health DirectorLorenzo Sommella and the Director of the Healthcare Professions Management and Associate Professor, Daniela Tartaglini. He will speak at 12.00 Sister Giulia Clarizio, referent for International Humanitarian Law of the Metropolitan Area Committee of Rome Capital of the CRI, whose speech will be followed by an in-depth analysis of the convention by Deborah Diodati and, at 12.30, the signature.

"30 volunteer or student nurses and 30 volunteers from CRI AM in Rome will operate inside the Polyclinic. For the Red Cross nurses who will support the nursing activity with their voluntary work, this will also be valid as an internship for the students. The volunteers will support patients in travel and assistance in general, also in anticipation of the imminent opening of the Emergency Department", he says Deborah Diodati who does not hide his satisfaction with what he defines as "a collaboration that will see volunteering at the forefront of giving support and comfort to people being treated at the Polyclinic, enabling many people to find a point of reference and support in the Red Cross in the wake of the best tradition of Red Cross volunteering in the health field". 

"The collaboration with the Red Cross is fully part of the project to create the new Emergency Admissions Department which will see the light of day next spring. The Emergency Department was created with the aim of combining the most modern technologies available and the highest medical and nursing expertise with a welcome for patients and their families which is itself part of the treatment" bychiara Paolo Sormani who, on the agreement signed on World Volunteer Day, adds "the one with the Red Cross is a structured alliance, built on the common values ​​of our institutions, in a context - such as the University Hospital - in which volunteering has a solid tradition".

The work will resume at 15.15pm, with a workshop on the importance of volunteering within an Emergency and Reception Department. Adolfo Pagnanelli, DEA director, Federica Sambuco, UOC-DEA Medical Director, and Tiziana Marano, nursing coordinator will talk about organizational, clinical-assistance and training aspects. This will be followed by speeches by Sister Benedetta Colasanti of the CRI, on the role of volunteer nurses, Gonzalo Castro Cedeno, of the Caritas health area, Barbara Cannelli, head of the Sant'Egidio community in southern Rome, Gemma Berta, volunteer at the Policlinico, and Claudia Bedetti, House Manager at Casamica Housing Social.