Gaeta – Tomorrow grand opening of the pediatric counseling center
Gaeta – Tomorrow grand opening of pediatric counseling center
Swill be inaugurated Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 11 am, at the municipal premises in Via Firenze (intersection Via Veneto and Via Piave), The Pediatric Specialist Counseling Center, created by the City of Gaeta in collaboration with l’Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome. The services provided by the center will be free of charge for children residing in Gaeta.
The important initiative sees the Municipal Administration at the side of the Bambino Gesù Hospital, engaged in an action of development of the overall activities aimed at the pediatric age, thus contributing to enrich the medical care offer in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and cost-effectiveness, and avoiding to parents and children the inconvenience of traveling to Rome. With this in mind, the first citizen considered the contribution of general practitioners and pediatricians of free choice operating in the City of Gaeta, to whom is entrusted the fundamental task of the evaluation and formulation of the request for Pediatric Specialist Consultation at the Gaeta Center, as fundamental and valuable.
As part of the collaboration aimed at fully meeting the demand of our catchment area in relation to pediatric health services, Mitrano stressed that “the new specialist service goes to strengthen prevention and support interventions in favor of children and young people belonging to the minor age group. A strengthening achieved through the involvement of a national and international center of excellence in the care and protection of children”s health such as the Children’Bambino Gesù Children” Hospital;.
The collaboration with the Child Jesus includes in particular the development of specialized consulting activities in pediatrics, Pediatric surgery and prevention of cardiac arrhythmias. Consultations that for children residing in Gaeta will be completely paid for by the City of Gaeta. “We want to help parents, in this general time of economic difficulty – states the mayor Mitrano – supporting them, in a concrete way, in the precious and complex task of caring for their children”.
The inaugural ceremony, which the Mayor of Gaeta will kick off at 11 a.m., will be attended by members of the’Municipal Administration, representing the Children’Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital head of pediatric surgery Alessandro Inserra, representatives of the AUSL Latina. Invited to participate are military, civil and religious authorities, primary physicians and pediatricians, heads of primary and secondary schools in the City.
