Covid point paralyzed by the contagion boom, for students the swab is done in the Municipality

First experiment at Zero Branco, but many other municipalities are ready to join in order to reduce queues at Covit points such as that of customs in Treviso

TREVISO. The “swab in the town hall” for students who have to undergo the test for the exit from quarantine kicks off on 31 December. The protagonist of the initiative is the Municipality of Zero Branco that from 8 to 11 welcomed a task force of volunteer doctors in the council room to carry out the screening of two classes of students and a group of families.

Mayor Luca Durighetto is satisfied: “Our municipality, with employees and administrators, in particular the councilor Lucia Scattolin, supported by voluntary work and in synergy with our health company, is able to launch a project that has a double objective : on the one hand supporting the work of the operators of the buffer centers of Customs and Casier, in the last period really overloaded, on the other hand, to be able to offer a real service – in some cases a relief – to many families and young pupils in our municipality ».

Ulss 2 provided the machinery for reporting the samples, while the Municipality made the spaces available and identified a team of six nurses and two volunteer doctors, coming from the municipal area, in charge of carrying out the tests. To coordinate them today Dr. Roberto Rigoli, former head of microbiology of Treviso now director of the social together with colleagues Stefano De Rui and Nicoletta Santoro. “We are starting with the pilot project at Zero Branco” confirms the general manager of Ulss 2 Francesco Benazzi “but we are discussing with all the mayors of the Marca in order to make this formula capillary. I know that many municipalities are already taking an interest in activating the service ».

Encouraging signs arrive from the conference of mayors led by Paola Roma, mayor of Ponte di Piave. “We have already presented this experimentation to the mayors and the adhesions will be on a voluntary basis, we already have a few dozen. This is an initiative for to meet our younger fellow citizens and not make parents queue long»Says Rome. If the “swab in town hall” operation were to take off with a broad consensus, the health company would be able to relieve the pressure on its Covid Points, which have managed to administer 12,000 tampons a day, with endless lines of waiting users and exhausted health workers .