ROMA (ITALPRESS) – In the tragedy of Crans-Montana, 20 Italian citizens, 14 injured and 6 deceased were involved. One is still admitted to Switzerland: he had to be transferred first yesterday, then today, but his clinical conditions do not allow it at this moment the transport”. Thus the Head of the Department of Civil Protection, Fabio Ciciliano, in a press point on the tragedy of Crans-Montana in the headquarters of the Department in Rome, after having welcomed to Linate and then to Ciampino the salami of the six Italian victims. Ciciliano then expressed his “personal and on behalf of the Civil Protection to the families of the victims and proximity to the wounded who are still admitted to Milan and Zurich. These boys who are now a little all our children,” he added.
“When it was clear that the emergency management of Swiss systems was no longer able to maintain the ordinary governance of rescue action, the support of Italy and other neighbouring countries was fundamental. The regions were immediately set up, from the very beginning, special beds were made available, with a very high level of care, for the great burnt-outs”, as well as specific medicines. “The institutional synergy action has been realized with this advanced team, first in Switzerland and then through distribution” in hospitals. “The teams we had made available were two to give the opportunity to try to transfer these patients”, because “some of the 120 wounded had found assistance in hospitals that we had no adequate beds for the management of large burners”.
The first transfer criterion “obviously concerned patients who were to be treated more intensively. The second criterion was obviously the criterion of the proximity of residences”, he explained. “Thus we have ensured the best chance of care and therefore survival of each patient without annihilating what are the operational capabilities of the hospitals of the national territory, which of course must have the ability to continue to provide the necessary performance,” he said. The transfer was possible “thanks to the helicopters of the Regions, in the total misfortune of the event the luck was that the weather conditions allowed the transfer early”.
“At this moment we still have a team of the Civil Protection Department deployed in Crans-Montana that is moving towards Zurich, where there is the injured Italian citizen who is admitted” and “will stay there to follow those activities” related to the “possibility of transfer of the wounded who are perhaps not Italian but who have the need to be assisted in our national territory”.
“One of the absolute criticalities is to reduce as much as possible the transfer time and therefore the helicopter is the best and most suitable means from this point of view. The advantage, if so we can say, was that the event happened about 10 km from the border and therefore from the logistic point of view the simplification of the transfer from our teams has been favored also by the weather conditions that allowed in these 4 days that it did not rain and that there was no fog: Imagine what could have happened if we had to transfer patients to ambulances, it would have been much more complicated.” “Switzerland is a country that is used to be very precise in what are the procedures, has strict protocols even during emergencies, but it is not accustomed to managing the unexpected and therefore the presence of the Italian team, the Department and colleagues of the Farnesina has facilitated without any doubt those that were the procedures to accelerate all aspects, from the localization and identification of the injured psychologists in the different hospitals of Switzerland to the activity of support we had some psychologists from the Aosta Valley who obviously spoke fluently French and therefore were made available also to French citizens who were not Italian”.
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