Eni's people donate over 600.000 euros to the Italian Red Cross
Eni's people raised over € 600.000 in three weeks as part of a solidarity collection in support of the Italian Red Cross in this emergency period.
From March 18 to April 9, Eni people have chosen to donate the value of an hour or more of their work through an initiative proposed by the employees and launched by the company, which will collect the hours donated and donate them to the Italian Red Cross to face the emergency.
The Italian Red Cross is at the forefront of the whole national territory with various activities that are carried out by volunteers who with effort and sacrifice dedicate so much of their energy to the most fragile people, those whom we must all protect as much as possible.
"This initiative makes me particularly proud because it was born spontaneously by our people and shows how, even in a difficult moment like this, they continue to remain in solidarity and to think about those who need it most," said Claudio Descalzi, Eni's CEO.
The donations further strengthen the efforts put in place by Eni in support of those who are at the forefront of managing the health emergency in the country. The Company's overall economic commitment amounts to approximately 35 million euros.
The Italian Red Cross has been on the front line since the start of the Covid-19 alert in a widespread manner across the country through thousands of volunteers and operators who are working tirelessly to support the population. The CRI, sitting at the technical table of the Emergency Operational Committee, is intervening with its means, its women and men to ensure relief, health and logistical support, safely managing the medical transport of potentially suspect cases with high-level means biocontainment. In addition to emergency interventions, it is working to transform this critical moment into the "Time of Kindness", intensifying services throughout the national territory for the most vulnerable people with greater social and health fragility, including home shopping, social transport, delivery of medicines and basic necessities.
Eni initiatives to support the Covid-19 emergency
- Eni delivered lung ventilators for sub-intensive therapy to the Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo and to the Health Protection Company of Bergamo;
- In Basilicata, the Company has delivered and is in the process of supplying pulmonary ventilators, intensive care and resuscitation beds, mobile units equipped with spirometer, oximeter and ultrasound, and CPAP (positive pressure masks for airways);
- Eni provided its support to the AUSL of Ravenna and Ancona, to 118 of Ravenna and to the Italian Red Cross of Pesaro, Ancona and Ortona, taking on the supply of medical devices such as respirators, lung fans, defibrillator monitors. Supplies are being progressively assigned;
- In Sicily, the company implemented the engineering plan for the construction of an intensive care unit at the "Vittorio Emanuele" hospital in Gela, also benefiting from the overall planning of the Provincial Health Authority which also covers the community of the province; the supply of a hospital sterilizer for the Gela hospital is also underway. For the local health authorities of Messina-Milazzo, the Milazzo Refinery (50% joint venture with Eni) supports the project for setting up intensive care units at the Milazzo hospital;
- In Puglia, the company has initiatives in place to support the local health companies of Taranto and Brindisi through the supply of health equipment to strengthen the capacity of intensive care in the hospital structures identified by the Region. Pulmonary ventilators, ventilator-respirators and multi-parameter monitors will be delivered soon. In Brindisi, aids have been delivered and are arriving to support the hospital wards and intensive care units in the city;
- Eni has destined important supplies of masks to health care companies operating in Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Marche, Basilicata, Puglia, Sicily and Sardinia;
- Eni is the sole partner of the Agostino Gemelli IRCCS University Hospital Foundation for the construction of the COVID 2 Hospital in Rome (formerly Columbus private hospital), exclusively dedicated to the care of patients with Coronavirus. The facility has 130 beds including 50 in intensive care, as well as advanced technologies in the diagnosis of the disease with X-ray, CT and transthoracic ultrasound. As part of the same operation, an emergency room dedicated to coronavirus patients was also set up inside the Gemelli Polyclinic;
- The company will build a new emergency room dedicated to infectious diseases with the IRCCS Luigi Sacco Hospital in Milan;
- In Pavia, with the IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Eni participates in the construction of a high level isolation unit of the infectious diseases department;
- At the IRCCS Policlinico di San Donato, Eni has ensured the supply of medical equipment such as resuscitation monitor and personal protective equipment;
- The company is funding public utility information campaigns with the Italian Federation of General Practitioners on the role of the family doctor as the citizen's first interlocutor against COVID-19, as well as that in favor of older people to inform them of the services to which they can log in for daily life, being unable to leave your home;
- Eni has made several charter flights available to the Lombardy Region and to the Civil Protection for the transport of healthcare material, such as fans and masks (collaboration with China Italy Philantropy Forum);
- Eni's HPC5 supercomputer for Coronavirus research. Eni has freely made its supercomputing infrastructures and its molecular modeling skills available to research on Coronavirus, offering the contribution of tools and resources of excellence in the fight against the global emergency;
- Eni will continue to monitor the evolution of the emergency and the consequent needs that may emerge at a local level in the health sector.