By lorenza | grant officer
During the lockdown and the most dramatic months of pandemic in Italy, Fondazione Francesca Rava NPH Italia has been working tirelessly to help Intensive Care Units and Hospitalsin Milan and in other cities in Italy. In 2 months (March-April 2020) 23 hospitals in 7 Regions in Italy have been helped.
Francesca Rava Foundation has donated to Policlinico di Milano Hospital beds and medical equipment to open a new Covid-19 Intensive Care Unit with 16 beds: the new ICU opened its doors on 27th March 2020 and has been fully operating up to June 2020. The new Covid ICU is a permanent donation and will be of great help in case of new waves of pandemic.
Francesca Rava Foundation has also donated beds and medical equipment to Ospedale Sacco in Milan: a new Covid-19 Sub-Intensive Unit has opened its doors with 30 beds and the necessary medical equipment.
Francesca Rava Foundation has helped hospitals with donations of medical equipment, and DPI, in Bergamo, Turin, Genoa, Rome, Naples, Agrigento, Siracusa, and Augusta in Sicily, just to name the major cities. As a total, 43 ecographs, 3 cardiotocographers, 44 monitors, 46 ventilators and other medical equipment for helped breathing, more than 1.000 instruments for monitoring vital parameters, 8.500 surgical masks and 2.200 protective coveralls have been donated to Italian Hospitals and will remain a permanent asset of Hospital, strenghtening the capacity to respond to new waves of pandemic.
Now, Francesca Rava Foundation is engaged in helping Maternity Wards in Italy, with its project Life's stronger than Covid. Maternity Wards need to be equipped to open doors and to care for pregnant women affected by Covid, while safeguarding Birth and Delivery paths for all the other women. Francesca Rava Foundation has already helped the Covid Maternity Hubs at Policlinico di Milano and Ospedale Sacco Hospitals in Milan and is helping other Maternity Wards in Italy.
Also the project for children and families in need is going on. SOS Spesa program is helping families, old lone-people, shelter homes for children and for mothers, and fragile people hit by the economic crisis caused by the pandemic and the lockdown. Francesca Rava Foundation prepares and donates food (pasta, sugar, rice, olive oil, biscuits and crackers, canned goods), sanitary products for newborns and babies (diapers, sanitary towels, powder milk, soft food), surgical masks, tablets and smartphones for online learning. Up to now Francesca Rava Foundation has helped more than 73 shelter homes and 4900 families in Italy, but we still need your help!
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