“In emergency and actually war contexts we arrive to try to repair something that has already happened, so we are already late, we have already lost”. We should think about it first, “already be prepared with resilient healthcare organizations, that is, those that know how to absorb unpredictable shocks such as wars, catastrophes, climate cataclysms or socio-economic events. In this reality, the biomedical engineer is at the center of a series of actors”, public, private and institutional operators, “who must collaborate to make those health services that are needed available and real”. Thus Umberto Vitale, engineer, Global Medical Device Advisor, United Nations Office for Project Services (Unops) Copenhagen, Denmark, speaking today at the symposium dedicated to the management of biomedical technologies in difficult contexts, within the national conference of the Italian Association of Clinical Engineers (Aiic) ongoing in Rome until 18 May.
It is a question, as an engineer in the United Nations, of “giving priority to interventions, investing in the transport sector to give access to resources”, above all “human, before technological – continues Vitale – In Ukraine the United Nations is particularly active regarding the planning of the reconstruction of the country and of all the services and infrastructures, damaged or destroyed by the ongoing conflict, to create access routes to structures for the provision of essential health services to citizens, also guaranteeing sustainability, safety of the operators. In Gaza the United Nations is trying to move, within the conflict and logistical difficulties, through those few crossings from where it is possible to occasionally bring in goods and aid to provide the main health services”.
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