Here come the workshops of health, the new garrison in isolated areas ... - Gonews

The first to go by December, will be six municipalities of the Elbe (Capoliveri, Marciana, Porto Azzurro, Campo Elba, Portoferraio and Rio nell’Elba), then Pistoia and the ‘island of Capraia. For those who live in the mountains or in isolated areas and the shops arriving on the edge of health, presented today during the Expo Rural initiative underway until Sunday at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence. A service wanted by the Region of Tuscany in collaboration with ANCI and Uncem, associations of municipalities and mountain communities.

Into Sixty points to activate – In three years it will be open at least sixty, and you can address these branches are open for at least five hours a day for five days a week, for the certification at health based on income, for her blood pressure tested, glucose, cholesterol or triglycerides, to book and collect reports and laboratory tests or to make an appointment with the social worker. In the shops you can also ask for health information on many other public services or consumer protection, and you can receive assistance for access to online services of Posts and INPS.

You can book Into the shopping delivered and Home Medicines social or transport services.

Employees Into municipal and young people of the civil service – in short, one-stop multi-functional, which will operate with municipal staff and young people of the civil service appropriately trained to meet the needs and demands of those who live in countries where there are no more public offices, where maybe it was closed recently and even the post office where there are no pharmacies or medical labs, and it is difficult to move. A service created thinking in particular older, a little ‘as the doors “That’s it!” also aimed to fractions peripherals, but available to all citizens. Free, of course.

Into “The health of the workshop is an innovative service whose success passes through the participation of all stakeholders in the territory and all actors of civil society-said the commissioner the right to health of Tuscany, Louis Brown – It This is a challenge imposed by the difficult economic situation and the consequent lack of resources and only by developing the best possible synergies we all together to ensure the mountain people the right to health and quality of life, starting with the weakest of which often affects the digital divide. “

Into “At a time like the present, where we see a steady reduction in the resources available for local authorities – says the president of ANCI Toscana and mayor of Livorno, Alessandro Cosimi – it becomes increasingly difficult for municipalities to be able to provide citizens with services, even those that are essential. Through the project “Workshop of health” we commit ourselves together, communities and regions, to maintain essential services in the area, so that people living in more marginal areas are not forced to move from small to large shopping centers to be able to take advantage. “

Into “That the Shops of health – says the president of Oreste Giurlani Uncem Tuscany – is an important and innovative, a way to ensure the territories, particularly those most lacking in services, a network of small garrisons socio- health, real ‘sentinels’ of living well. “