(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 06 – A new public utility number 1520 and a new, more technologically advanced headquarters for the ‘national response center “, characterized by red and white, the company colors, and equipped with 70 stations for the operators, currently 40 are active, who will deal with socio-assistance and medical requests seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The Italian Red Cross is renewed and today – on the eve of its world day which is celebrated on the 8th May by 14 million volunteers in 192 countries – cut the ribbon of his new ‘control room “in Rome, in via Ramazzini 31, in the presence of President Francesco Rocca, Undersecretary of Defense Giorgio Mulè, Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri and the head of the Civil Protection Department Fabrizio Curcio. The new ‘national response center’ is also equipped with desks dedicated to psychological assistance and deaf people.
A telemedicine experiment is also underway by 20 operators thanks to a wearable support that will allow the biometric parameters of the most fragile people to be monitored.
“The national response center – explained Rocca – is a technological advancement as these are services that we already provided but will be carried out in a more coordinated way. It is also an opportunity to announce the number 1520 which is the number of public utility, before we had an 800 number, now we have a 4-digit number that citizens can turn to for their social and socio-health needs and to respond to loneliness. We do not enter into competition with other realities, ours is a possibility further that is offered to the community. Lastly, telemedicine is another aspect in which we want to invest and grow thanks to the capillarity that the Red Cross has on the territory “Rocca stressed that the goal is to strengthen” the relationship with the communities with respect to daily crises, we always think about earthquakes in reality there are many individual crises to which we want to give answers trying not to leave anyone behind “. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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