PROJECT COMPLETED

Cardiac arrest can strike anyone, without warning. In Italy every year, about 72,000 people are affected by cardiac arrest and currently only 5% are saved. The presence of a defibrillator near the scene of the incident increases the survival rate to 75%. With this project, the Club of Assisi undertakes to provide the local community every year with a semi-automatic external defibrillator (AED) to be placed in places with the highest tourist concentration, in agreement with the local administration. It will therefore be possible not only to provide a "life-saving" machine within everyone's reach, but also to contribute to the culture and information on the use of the defibrillator through a training day managed by the instrument manufacturer. Our goal: to reduce intervention times in the event of cardiac arrest, increasing the number of publicly accessible defibrillators and thus improve survival rates.

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ONGOING PROJECT

A musical instrument made available to patients and the staff of the hospital of Assisi to humanize hospitalization and care and encourage opportunities for the community and hospitalized people to meet. Around the piano, made available by the Club, Rotary is organizing real musical and artistic seasons that will see the entrance hall of the Medicine department transform into a real concert hall.

PROJECT COMPLETED

The Club has activated a subscription on the GoFundMe platform to purchase and donate a CARAT II non-invasive ventilator to the Assisi hospital which allows it to provide assistance to patients suffering from Covid-19. Treating the patient with non-invasive ventilation avoids overloading the health facilities dedicated to emergencies. The request for the ventilator was formulated directly by the health personnel of the Assisi garrison. For every euro raised through this campaign, the Rotary Club of Assisi has committed a co-financing of one euro, doubling the donations up to a maximum of 3000 euro.

The fundraising launched by the Rotary Club of Assisi closed with a surplus of € 1,666.58 compared to the initial objective (the € 8,357 for the purchase of the non-invasive lung ventilator, donated to the Assisi hospital on 25 March). The surplus constitutes practically half the cost of an additional electromedical device, the electrocardiograph, which was purchased by merging the surpluses of the two GoFundMe collections that enlivened social networks in March-April 2020: that of Rotary (to which , in addition to private individuals, associations such as Interact Assisi, the "Città di Assisi" Moto Club, Circolo del Subasio and "Il Giunco", and companies such as Concetti S.p.a.) and the one launched by Alessandro Alunni for the purchase of PPE for the healthcare personnel involved in the "grey area" (also in this case a surplus was created, thanks to the generosity of those who contributed).

The two organizers therefore decided to co-finance the purchase of the new electromedical, essential for the home care of patients with cardiorespiratory symptoms, pooling their forces and achieving a single, great common goal.