The race for donations continues to support hospitals engaged in the fight against the coronavirus. Taking the field today, March 18, is the Tim Foundation with two parallel actions: on the one hand the Foundation has decided to donate 500 thousand euros, on the other he threw a voluntary subscription among Tim employees, with the company that has undertaken to complete the fundraising up to 500 thousand euros. In total, 1 million euros will be allocated from the Tim Foundation to fight the coronavirus emergency.
The funds will be allocated to 4 structures that will each receive 250 euros: the San Raffaele hospital in Milan and the Consortium for Health Research - CORIS of the Veneto Region. In this second case, the resources will be used to co-finance "a clinical study coordinated by Prof. Vincenzo Bronte of the University of Verona which involves hospitals in the Veneto region and aims to understand the immunological dynamics of the infection as soon as possible and develop therapies that can avoid the manifestations more serious than the disease,” Tim explains in a statement. The third structure identified is the Spallanzani hospital in Rome that it will use the funds to upgrade biosafety laboratories; fourth is the National Cancer Institute IRCCS “G. Pascale” of Naples, who will receive 250 thousand euros for a laboratory that will begin work on the genome of the virus with the aim of finding a therapy.
Further initiatives relating to the post-emergency period and relating to sectors such as telemedicine and the combination of medicine and advanced technologies for the remote transmission of data and knowledge are being evaluated.
Salvatore Rossi, president of the TIM Foundation, commented: "There are those who are fighting this war on the front lines: doctors, resuscitators, nurses, all the staff of the hospitals that welcome patients affected by this virus, especially in Lombardy and Veneto, but not only. In such a dramatic moment, we cannot leave these people alone. It is on them that our safety, our well-being, the fate of the most unfortunate among us who have contracted this virus depend".
