(Adnkronos) - “Già da diversi anni i nostri medici e i nostri specializzandi scendono in Africa. Abbiamo però voluto istituzionalizzare questa partnership perché riteniamo, e abbiamo visto essere così, che quando i nostri medici hanno la possibilità di trascorrere alcuni mesi in contesti in cui non c'è niente, se non la salute e il rispetto verso il paziente, tornano a casa molto arricchiti”. Lo ha detto la rettrice dell’università Milano-Bicocca Giovanna Iannantuoni, a margine della presentazione di Bridge (Bicocca research and innovation for development and global health) - Uganda, il nuovo progetto dell’università di Milano-Bicocca che parte dal capoluogo lombardo e arriva nel distretto di Gulu, nel Nord dell’Uganda.
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00:00Today, in my opinion, is a very special day because there is a lot of talk about internationalisation
00:08and there is also a lot of talk about the national health system and medicine, so in a context
00:15in which in our country we reflect on the number of doctors, nurses and also on the
00:19quality of the national health system, it is very important for us to really spread
00:25this quality, not only in our country but also in one of the most fragile areas
00:30internationally, which is this northern part of Uganda, which really represents one of the
00:36major economic and social fragilities worldwide.
00:40Why did we make this decision?
00:42This partnership has actually been around for several years, our doctors, our specialists
00:48are now several years down, but we wanted to institutionalise it precisely because we think
00:54and we have seen that when our doctors have the opportunity to spend months in contexts
01:01where there is nothing, but in which there is health and respect for the patient, they
01:07become much richer, enriched and really, in my opinion, we must think that this is
01:13the most important thing for a vocational profession such as that of a doctor, nurse
01:18and obstetrician.
01:19And so the idea of this outpost, which in any case will involve the fact that in our
01:24training network, together with hospitals of excellence such as San Gerardo, Papa Giovanni,
01:30Niguarda and many, many others, there is Uganda, there is CORE, there is this place where
01:36obstetricians, nurses, doctors, specialists and students of medicine
01:42in the last two years can make a fundamental training moment.
01:46Obviously, what is the importance?
01:48The importance is also that on the territory we will train doctors and specialists necessary
01:53for that territory on site and therefore we will have the possibility of having this training network
01:58on even in a place as difficult as the Ugandan one.
02:03The economic investment is obviously quite significant, but in short, Ateneo is very
02:08happy to do it.
02:09We have two international outposts, one that deals with marine sustainability in a
02:15small island of the Maldives, and this is our second, precisely because we think that
02:19the excellences that we have, which are on the one hand that of sustainability, ecology
02:24and on the other hand that of medicine, must find their meaning where these things
02:28are really prioritized in the daily lives of the people who live them.