2024-05-11 17:50:49
(ANSA) – NAPLES, MAY 11 – Three hundred and eight children, of the over 3000, born in 2023 at the birth center of the Federico II Polyclinic in Naples, required hospitalization in Neonatal Intensive Care.
And it is precisely to these newborns that the Soccorso Rosa Azzurro ONLUS Association is dedicated, which operates in particular in the Neonatology and NICU departments of the “Federico II” University Hospital and which today celebrated its first 20 years of activity.
On the occasion of the event, which saw the participation, among others, of the mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi, the Federico II University and the Soccorso Rosa Azzurro ONLUS Association presented the national project “BABY@Net”, of which they are part, financed by the Ministry of Health, dedicated to the surveillance of those born at risk of autism.
“In 2023, more than 3,000 children were born in our birth center, we are the first hospital in Southern Italy and, despite the national and regional demographic decline which continues to increase inexorably, we aim to maintain this objective also for 2024”, stated the Prof. Raimondi, Professor of Paediatrics, Director of the Neonatology and NICU Unit, Head of the Neonatal Emergency Transport Service and Regional Center for Perinatal Infections Department of Translational Medical Sciences of the “Federico II” University of Naples and President of the Soccorso Rosa Azzurro ONLUS Association .
Among the priority care activities of the Association, there is the technological updating and integration of electro-medical equipment (incubators, monitors, respirators, cots, etc.) of the Neonatal Intensive Care Units and the Neonatal Transport Service of the Campania Region. There are 4 Emergency Neonatal Transport (STEN) units active throughout Campania and the Federico II unit represents the main unit in terms of number of transports carried out, 600 throughout Campania in 2023 and already 163 as of 30 April 2024.
May 11th is also celebrated as the National Day for the Promotion of Neurodevelopment, launched by the Italian Society of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry (SINPIA), to promote Neurodevelopment in all children and adolescents and support harmonious and serene, intervening promptly when difficulties and disorders appear.
On the occasion of the event, the Federico II University and the Soccorso Rosa Azzurro ONLUS Association presented the national project “BABY@Net”, of which they are part. BABY@Net is an integration and enhancement of the NIDA Network, funded by the Ministry of Health, for the implementation of neurodevelopmental surveillance of the general and high-risk population.
Funded by the tender for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and by the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Health and by the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, it is a national teleassistance project for neonatal intensive care and child neuropsychiatry, for the surveillance of neurodevelopment in those born in the COVID era through neonatal intensive care and family paediatricians, in which Federico II of Naples participates. (HANDLE).
2024-05-11 17:50:49