Strengthen cross-border healthcare collaboration, create mutual training for doctors and nurses, increase the capacity to provide services to respond to the needs of communities that share a similar territory, expand technological equipment. These are the cornerstones of the Interreg France-Italy Fridha project (Training and integrated network of Alpine hospitals) which aims to improve the offer of health services in the sector of diagnostics of digestive system pathologies and, when necessary, assisted surgical treatment robot-like for some of these.
The project had a total funding of one million and 340,000 euros, of which 738,750 euros reserved for the Aosta Valley. The initiative originates from the agreement a year ago between the Local Health Authority of Valle d’Aosta and the Sallanches hospital “to build the foundations of a collaboration network on specific needs and create innovative circuits to take care of patients and train staff “. In particular, the agreement “served to implement and test the international procedure for the transfer, taking charge, monitoring and administrative management of patients”.
In October the approval of the Fridha project thanks to which the partners will be able to work together in an integrated way to offer patients from the Aosta Valley who need to undergo diagnostic tests of the digestive system, faced with very long waiting lists, the possibility of using the healthcare service public by carrying out the exam in the Hôpitaux du Pays du Mont-Blanc, and French patients who must undergo surgical interventions related to digestive system pathologies, the possibility of being operated on with robot-assisted techniques at the Aosta hospital.
“The cross-border approach – explains the general director of the Local Health Authority, Massimo Uberti – allows us to network the health services of two nearby hospital structures, which can mutually integrate human resources with adequate skills, technologies and instruments and administrative and assistance services to improve the provision of services and support ourselves in resolving critical issues. With a significant sum, Europe has decided to finance a project that presents only advantages for citizens by offering additional opportunities for visits and tests and training on specific methods for healthcare professionals , like robotic ones”.
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