The organization of the medical
area of the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples was the focus of a
roundtable discussion held on Wednesday.
The discussion was held in the offices of Special
Commissioner Gianluca Basile in Naples.
The pillars of the healthcare area will be the regional
government with its local healthcare authorities and the
Campania-region universities Federico II, Università Vanvitelli
and Fisciano with their faculties of medicine.
The head physicians will be Dr. Vincenzo Caputo, director of
the Napoli 1 Centro local healthcare authority for the services
offered by the regional government, Professor Amato De Paulis
from the medical faculty of the Federico II university.
They will be tasked with coordinating the large number of
doctors and nurses who will be looking after the over 8,000
athletes expected to arrive in Campania in 2019.
Participants of the roundtable discussion included
Commissioner Basile; general director of the Napoli 1 Centro
local healthcare authority Mario Forlenza; general director of
the Federico II polyclinic Vincenzo Viggiani; Arturo Romano, who
was representing the regional healthcare service coordination at
the town council; Amato De Paulis and Vincenzo Caputo.
Several issues were discussed.
Over the coming weeks, personnel will be recruited from the
Campania region healthcare system, with at least one hundred
doctors and a hundred nurses needed, and ambulances will be
equipped.
Measures already decided include the permanent presence of a
medical unit in the athletes' lodgings at Naples' Stazione
Marittima and in Caserta and Salerno.
Meanwhile, in collaboration with the Italian Sports Medicine
Federation, about 600 blood and urine antidoping tests will be
carried out in line with official protocol. Some will be given
without advance notice.
The roundtable discussion highlighted the need to ensure a
series of checks on the delegations when they arrive as a
precaution against infectious diseases.
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