Ribbon cutting for the new hospitalization of Protected Medicine for inmates inside the Santa Maria di Misericordia. The area intended for hospitalization is spread over an area of 125 square meters, is annexed to the Vascular Medicine department – Stroke Unit (block B second floor), explains a note from the Perugia Hospital.
The new department, shared with the Perugia Hospital and with the Department of Penitentiary Administration (DAP) – Regional Superintendency for Tuscany and Umbria, “is composed of: an access to the area via an entrance filter with metal detector, a video surveillance control room, rooms equipped with toilets – one with two beds and two with one bed – an interview room and a room equipped with a “drug bugger compact” for the recovery of the ova. furnishings, as well as fixtures, have been created and installed to ensure maximum safety for inmates and healthcare personnel “.
The hospitalization of Protected Medicine, continues the Santa Maria della Misericordia, “is intended for the hospitalization of patients in prison with pathologies of low-medium intensity of care, while for pathologies that require intensive treatment, reference will be made to specialized and high intensity structures. of the Hospital. Patients will be assisted by the health personnel of the Hospital, while the safety and order of the Department will be guaranteed by the Penitentiary Police of the Capanne Prison, 24 hours a day “.
“I am particularly pleased that this work, carried out over the years by the previous directors to whom I address a particular thank you, can finally be operational, after the stop dictated by the pandemic emergency, thanks to the commitment and synergy between institutions – underlines the general manager of the Hospital of Perugia, Marcello Giannico – Clinical and health care of patients will be guaranteed by the team of the Internal Medicine Stroke Unit, directed by Professor Cecilia Becattini with the support of the medical staff of the Internal Medicine Department directed by professor Matteo Pirro “.
“On the basis of the patient’s clinical assistance needs – continues Giannico – specialist consultations by hospital professionals may be activated for the other branches directly in the Protected Medicine hospital. The opening will bring many advantages, starting with saving resources, recovering beds and optimizing the work of the health team “.
The president of the Umbria Region, Donatella Tesei, intervened at the inauguration and expressed satisfaction with the creation and opening of the protected hospitalization inside the Perugia Hospital. For the Municipality of Perugia, the councilor for social policies, Edi Cicchi and the director of the Capanne prison, Dr. Bernardina Di Mario, attended the ceremony.
The Head of the Department of Penitentiary Administration, Dr. Bernardo Petralia, aware of the goal achieved by the Perugia prison in agreement with the Umbria Region, expressed his appreciation: “An objective that pursues an important ministerial guideline by establishing in Hospital of Perugia a Hospitalization of Protected Medicine able to strengthen the structures of penitentiary health care and to improve the organization of staff services “.
The Regional Superintendency of the Penitentiary Administration for Tuscany and Umbria, Dr. Pierpaolo D’Andria, present at the event, expressed the greatest satisfaction to the management of the prison and the competent regional health bodies for the achievement of an important goal strategic: “The hospitalization of Protected Medicine in the ‘Santa Maria di Misericordia’ Hospital – underlines D’Andria – combines the improvement of health care for the restricted population in the Perugia prison, with the need to rationalize the guarding services in places external care. avoiding possible fragmentation in the admissions of patients with waste of personnel and safety problems “.
“Also in this case – he concludes – the Umbrian penitentiary system highlights a fruitful synergy between administrations capable of contributing to the development of criminal execution in terms of attention to the needs and rights of persons deprived of personal freedom and in terms of efficiency of institutional services “.
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