This morning in the port of Gioia Tauro was inaugurated the new medical-health first aid facility whose management was entrusted last March by the Port System of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas at the temporary grouping of companies formed by Bourelly Health Service Srl and Consorzio Sicilia for a duration of 24 months extendable for a further two years.

The new service will ensure a first aid medical and health care services to about 2,000 employees of the Calabrian port of call and to all operators port workers. The operational heart of the facility is a CMR ambulance (Mobile Resuscitation Center) of the latest generation, equipped with advanced technologies to deal with any type of health emergency. The vehicle has a monitor-defibrillator multi-parameter, electrocardiograph, pulmonary ventilator, pump infusion, medical aspirator, continuous monitoring systems of vital parameters, devices for traumatological immobilization and adult and pediatric devices. Medicines complete the supply life-saving systems, oxygen therapy systems, advanced airway management and high-handling stretchers, tools that will allow health teams, composed of rescue driver, nurse and doctor, to intervene quickly in the event of cardiac arrests, strokes, trauma, burns, respiratory failure or sudden illness.

In addition, to support operational activities, a first aid clinic has been set up completely equipped with advanced emergency trolley and devices state-of-the-art sanitary ware, designed to guarantee even in the most critical situations. The garrison will also be supported by a advanced information technology for the management of healthcare activities, with recording of the interventions carried out, monitoring of the stocks and expiry dates of medical devices, archiving of clinical reports and control of the consequent activities, in the full compliance with privacy regulations.