Speak in the tone of a veteran’s voice, but Federico Pecetta is only 29 years old. Emergency nurse, he worked in the Bergamo hospital for six years at the Papa Giovanni hospital and has now moved to Arezzo to take up service at the Deu di San Donato. “I left for an experience of a few months and stayed there for six years. A beautiful city and extraordinary colleagues …until March 2020. Since then a nightmare has begun that is also difficult to tell“he says, recalling his 15 months on the front line in the city most affected by the pandemic.” I don’t even know how I managed not to get sick, “says the young man. “In those days we also hospitalized 80 people a day, dozens of ambulance rides, and when we arrived at the houses we found people already with severe symptoms that we often had to immediately oxygenate and hospitalize in intensive care. I was alone, I lived alone and did not meet anyone. . Despite this, however, my experience in Bergamo has helped me to react and be ready for emergencies, to put aside pain and fear to treat, help and support patients “.
The young professional has a degree and two masters in Emergency and Critical Area obtained in Rome at Sapienza and another at Bicocca in Milan. “I chose to be an emergency nurse when I was very young. For a health problem, in fact, I was rescued and followed by the emergency doctors. Their way of working, the ability to help people concretely and quickly, empathy that they transmitted struck me so much that I chose what my life would be “he concludes with a hint of pride.