The San Bartolomeo project, in collaboration with the Community of Sant’Egidio and Deloitte, was presented on Saturday, May 27, in the framework of the Aula Magna of the Gemelli Isola Tiberina Hospital.
During the event, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness, Giovanni Leonardi, Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, Paolo Nusiner, President of Gemelli Isola Tiberina, Daniele Piacentini, CEO and Director General of Gemelli Isola Tiberina, Sergio Alfieri, Board Member of the Hospital Gemelli Isola Tiberina, Gennaro Capalbo, Health Director of Gemelli Isola Tiberina, Marco Impagliazzo, President of the Community of Sant’Egidio, Giusi Lecce, referring doctor of the project of the Community of Sant’Egidio, Fabio Pompei, CEO of Deloitte Italy and Guido Borsani, President of the Deloitte Foundation.
Other 170 users from 30 countries, affected by conflicts and other emergencies, have already benefited from the surgeries of Gynecology, Obstetrics, Senology and Dentistry in the pilot phase of the initiative, launched last January.
The right to health, the equity in access to care, social inclusion are the fundamental principles behind the project, designed to offer additional clinical-care services and expand the number of beneficiaries. In order to guarantee dedicated care, patients are accompanied in the phases of identifying the need and booking the appointment and facilitated thanks to a support system that also includes services such as linguistic mediation.
In a context of growing disparities in access to care, exacerbated by humanitarian crises such as the migratory waves in the Mediterranean, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and the situations of social exclusion that have grown after the Covid emergency, even among our fellow citizens, public and private organizations are called upon to cooperate to reduce this dramatic gap even in the most developed countries, “said Paolo Nusiner, President of the Gemelli Isola Tiberina Hospital. “The San Bartolomeo project was born precisely with this ambition and, in this context, the collaboration with two excellent partners such as the Community of Sant’Egidio and Deloitte, with whom we share one of the main values that guides the initiative, namely that of social inclusion, proved to be fundamental. Ours aims to be a response to one of the main challenges that the country poses to us, namely to guarantee everyone, including the destitute, a life worthy of a truly inclusive and democratic society, thus eliminating inequalities
The project is part of the broader plan to relaunch the Gemelli Isola Tiberina Hospital, launched last September, with the aim of returning to Rome a health facility capable of dialogue with the city, in continuity with its long and consolidated tradition, aiming at excellence of performance, in the name of the values of humanity, hospitality and hospitality that have always moved those who work in the field of Catholic health.
