The number of companies in the textile-fashion supply chain is increasing day by day and adhering to the possibility of organizing vaccination centers at the service of their employees, their families and the communities in the territories where they operate. Two of the most recent cases, the Valmontone outlet and the Otb group of Renzo Rosso, che alongside similar initiatives by leading players in the sector, from Giorgio Armani to Prada, passing through the French groups Kering and LVMH for all the Italian offices, to which are added, just to name a few more, Ovs and Damiani.
The drive-in operational in Lazio from 19 April
The largest drive-in vaccine center in Lazio will start next Monday, April 19, and the largest ever planned, up to now, in Italy with the capacity to administer, at full capacity, up to 3 thousand doses per day, thanks to the transformation of an area of 20 thousand square meters within a parking area of Valmontone Outlet (photo above). «The project was born from the collaboration between the Lazio Health Department, the Roma 5 Asl and the Valmontone Outlet – explained Giorgio Giulio Santonocito, general manager Asl Roma 5 -. The collaboration involved both the owner of the outlet, Dws Group, and Promos, the company that deals with the marketing and management of the structure) which, in addition to offering the space on which the vaccination center will be built, they are investing the necessary funds for the construction and set-up costs».
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The American example: drive-in instead of walk-in
Made starting from the successful models already active in the United States, the Valmontone drive-in allows – compared to the walk-in mode – a greater speed in the inflow and outflow of users and, more generally, of all vaccination operations. resulting in much higher numbers, albeit with the same resources used and safety for users and operators. The vaccine island will be the fulcrum on which the innovative scheme of the new vaccine center will be based: a micro structure, composed of a container positioned under a tensile structure, where two nurses will provide the simultaneous vaccination of 4 cars in less than 25 minutes, 7 days a week, from 9 to 19.
Automated management
The reception staff, with the help of a sophisticated software that will check the actual booking and the correct compilation of the forms, will sort the arriving cars and direct them by the volunteer staff to the “observation point” where the conditions of the passengers, without letting them get out of the car, before proceeding with the administration of the vaccine.Over 65 professionals employed including 19 doctors, 30 nurses and 16 health workers, which will exercise in the area, both in the first aid and first aid stations, and in the 7 planned islands – one of which is “red” (a medical facility intended for the reception of patients presenting critical reactions) – which will be able to manage a flow of 26 cars at the same time, arriving to perform over 250 administrations per hour for a total of about 2/3 thousand people vaccinated per day. From check-in to check-out, without ever getting out of the car, and in total safety, the center will be able to cover, in the 8 months of operation, over 740 thousand patients.
Renzo Rosso’s initiatives with Otb and Otb Foundation
The Otb Foundation, created by Renzo Rosso with his holding Otb, has confirmed the collaboration started at the beginning of the pandemic with the management of Ulss 7 Pedemontana to arrange the premises of the new vaccination center in Bassano Del Grappa (Vicenza), whose potential catchment area exceeds 100 thousand people. Like other companies in the sector, the Otb group has also made its premises available for setting up vaccine centers for the population and has prepared a vaccination plan, with membership on a voluntary basis, for its over 2,000 Italian employees.