The defense minister had announced it Lorenzo Guerini in Parliament last Tuesday, i Drive trough Defense, the mobile laboratories for swabs, will also be converted into vaccination centers if necessary. Yesterday the plan was presented by the head of the Dicastery himself.
Tomorrow, in Milan at the Trenno park, the first experiment in cooperation with the territorial structures of Santi Paolo and Carlo of the Lombardy Region. THE Drive trough Defense are part of the operation "Eos”Directed by the IOC (Operational Command of Summit Joint Forces). The IOC led by Army Corps General Luciano Portolano is continuously engaged, including holidays and days before holidays, in the fight against the pandemic. The COI, among its activities in this emergency, preserves and distributes vaccines in all Italian regions as well as supports the national public health.
To date, it has distributed almost two million vaccines throughout Italy - 9.750 Pfizer, 1.512.000 AstraZeneca and 446.400 Moderna. Within the 138 drive troughs, 106 doctors and 254 military nurses operate, mobile stations that in a few days can be converted into vaccination centers for the community.
The Defense has also begun its massive vaccination campaign among staff with stars having already inoculated the sera to over 65 units including soldiers, sailors, airmen and carabinieri, including over 20 vaccines for the civilian staff of the Dicastery. There are 138 drive troughs but the project plans to bring them to about 200. Leaving, Il Sole 24Ore tells us, there are those headed to Naples, Caserta, Milan (three), in the province of Pavia, Ancona, Alessandria, Messina, Misilmeri (Pa ), Catania, Florence (two), Pontedera (Pi) and Foligno (Pg).
Those already operational have already been located in Lombardy (28), Lazio (20), Veneto (16) and Campania (12).
In these new mobile vaccination centers, 22 doctors and 41 military nurses are already employed, while another 20 doctors and 39 nurses of the armed forces are carrying out professional activities in collaboration with the national health service also within the rest facilities for the elderly.