Il Turin Health, Research and Innovation Park is an exception to the common skepticism towards great works, since from over 20 yearsi enjoys unanimous consensus.
Its implementation is considered necessary for several reasons. First of all for replace a nearly century-old hospital, guaranteeing modern and adequate care for the community and also for create an appropriate place to develop research and innovation, and a unique opportunity for the development of the city and the region.
And based on these premises there is a question that arises spontaneously. Why wasn't the Health, Research and Innovation Park created?
If they ask the Polytechnic of Turin, Department of Law of the University of Turin, the School of Medicine of the University of Turin,Industrial Union and the Polo of the 900th century who started a series of public meetings to discuss the conditions and opportunities offered by the main transformation of the regional territory represented by the PSRI.
The promoter group also has formulated a decalogue to underline the importance of the project.
The 10 points of the project
here are the ten points of the decalogue which explains the importance of the Turin Health, Research and Innovation Park project:
- It is at everyone's service to offer advanced, more effective and safer services, safeguarding and expanding the fundamental right to health.
- It offers new spaces and treatment opportunities by replacing obsolete hospitals with a structure that is in step with the times, suitable to face the challenges of tomorrow's medicine without reducing the availability of care. Because to create a good hospital - and provide the best care - good and motivated healthcare workers are not enough.
- It is good for all Piedmontese healthcare by allowing an integrated healthcare organization to serve the care needs of the Piedmontese territory, because diseases are not treated only in hospital, but without a reference structure for acute and complex pathologies the entire healthcare network is suffers, forcing patients to look elsewhere for an answer.
- It is a point of reference for many diseases because it concentrates cutting-edge knowledge and technologies in a single hub, included in the regional and national hospital network, and avoids the escape of the best professionals, helping to contain the growing lack of vocation for the work of healthcare personnel.
- It promotes the progress of medicine because modern medicine is research, development and technological innovation, possible only in an adequate context, where these elements are closely connected to each other and with the University and companies involved in research.
- It improves the training of the next generations of healthcare personnel who can no longer be trained in structures and with obsolete technologies, now an expression of eras in which medicine was completely different.
- It is a driving force for the progress of the city and the region capable of attracting students, services, skills, investments and jobs, a new hub for urban and regional development.
- It is good for everyone's health because an architecturally and technologically obsolete hospital complicates the activities of operators and has an environmental and economic impact that is no longer sustainable; a better place of care translates into better care and better health for the entire community.
- It is a mature project, for over twenty years we have been thinking about the new Parco della Salute; now that we have identified the place where to build it, how it should develop and also found the resources, all that remains is to build it.
- We can achieve it if we all want it without the awareness of citizens, the commitment of healthcare workers and the will of the public administration, the Health Park will not be able to be achieved in the desired timeframe.
Four thematic meetings are underway
The Decalogue will be explored through a series of four thematic meetings open to the public, dedicated to the presentation and discussion of points with citizens and stakeholders. Specifically, the first three points will be addressed in the meeting organized by the Department of Law of the University of Turin, while the next three will be addressed at the School of Medicine of the University of Turin. The seventh and tenth points will be discussed at the Turin Industrial Union, while the eighth and ninth at the Polytechnic of Turin.
The first meeting is Tuesday 14 November
Il first meeting, entitled “What is the park? models, functioning, procedures, times” will take place Tuesday 14 November, at 15 pm in the Hall of Honor of the Valentino Castle (viale Mattioli, 39). The event will be attended by:
- Guido Saracco, rector of the Polytechnic of Turin (Greetings and moderation of speeches)
- Antonio Scarmozzino, health director of the Molinette Presidium – City of Health (Why regional healthcare needs the Park and not a hospital)
- Giovanni Durbiano, architect and professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin (Designing the Park)
- Giuseppe Russo, director of the Einaudi Center (The Park and programming)
- Alessandro Frigeni, director of the technical office of the Bergamo hospital (The park can be done: the example of the Bergamo hospital)
- Stefania Ravazzi, University of Turin and Piedmont Gramsci Institute (2003-2023: the gaze of the regional presidents)
- Marco Corsini, PSRI extraordinary commissioner (Where are we with the Park)
The next events
- February 2024: "Right to health and integrated health services" at the Einaudi campus, law department of the University of Turin
- March 2024: “Health, parks and development” at the Turin Industrial Union
- April 2024: “The park: research, assistance and teaching” at the medical school of the University of Turin
