Como: “Alert Button” in hospitals. Memoranda of Understanding signed today in the Prefecture

La State Police di As an signed this morning in the Prefecture a Memorandum of Understanding with ASST Lariana and drawn up a Emergency Regulations with theValduce Hospital of Como, formally establishing the “Alert Button”.

The meeting was attended by the Prefect Corrado Comfort Galli, even the Como Police Chief Marco Calì, Provincial Commanders of the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Finanza, the General Director of the ASST Lariana Luca Stucchi, the Special Prosecutor of the Valduce Hospital Mariella Enoch and Director of SSUEm. 118.

The system allows healthcare personnel to have exclusive access to a emergency button creating a direct link, with “Point-to-Point” technology.

As regards the Valduce in case of necessity an alarm will be transmitted to the 112 NUE operations room, for the subsequent immediate attribution of the intervention to the police forces based on the coordinated plan for territorial control.

All 'St. Anna Hospital di San Fermo della Battaglia, instead, the technology used provides in three departments the equipment of the emergency button: the emergency room, the psychiatry department and the SERT, an innovative fact for the Lombard reality.

In this case, once the alarm has been raised from each enabled station, the images from the 25 installed cameras will be activated immediately and will be viewed immediately and live by the operators of the Police Headquarters Operations Room of Como who will thus be able to calibrate the type of intervention always within the scope of the coordinated plan for territorial control.

La purpose of the operation concluded today it reads: “Both documents are intended to ensure greater protection for healthcare personnel working in the hospital facilities involved, ensuring prompt activation and rapid intervention by the police in the event of any aggression perpetrated by patients and/or their companions against said personnel in the departments most at risk”.