ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The nurses operate against the disease that vulnerable the integrity of the person in physical and moral aspects. The center of your commitment is, therefore, the person. I would like to make some of the slogans that have accompanied this commitment in the past years, to sum up its value. The nurse is life. The nurse is everywhere, for the good of all. Health is a right of civilization. Again: health had left you, nurses never. Because the nurse borrows the life of a person, she cares for the time necessary with the goal of returning it healthy. The decline of these themes strongly reminds us of the fragility and still existing differences.” Thus the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella in his speech at the Fnopi Assembly on the occasion of the International Day of Nurses at the Antonianum Auditorium in Rome.
“The strong personal ethics, of Christian solidarity, which had animated Nightingale, had found expression on the battlefields before even in the epidemics that were manifested. The trigger for the creation of an International Humanitarian Law during the conflicts was valuable and deserved very different respect. Nurses operate against the disease that vulnerable the integrity of the person in physical and moral aspects. The center of your commitment is, therefore, the person. I would like to make some of the slogans that have accompanied this commitment in the past years, to sum up its value. The nurse is life. The nurse is everywhere, for the good of all. Health is a right of civilization. Again: health had left you, nurses never. Because the nurse borrows the life of a person, she cares for the time necessary with the goal of returning it healthy. The decline of these themes strongly reminds us of the fragility and still existing differences. The strong personal ethics, of Christian solidarity, which had animated Nightingale, had found expression on the battlefields before even in the epidemics that were manifested. The trigger for the creation of an International Humanitarian Law during the conflicts was valuable and deserved very different respect,” Mattarella concludes.
“I do not succeed in comparing to heroic gestures those accomplished by your colleagues in Gaza, where a health system, already fragile, has been demolished, destroyed, as also elsewhere has happened.”.
“I keep in particular remembering the decisive contribution, the passionate dedication that has marked you on the occasion of the pandemic by Covid, dramatic, long emergency – that you have lived with sacrifices immani and with different victims – and that someone, with contempt of those tragic days, tries to rob little more than a slight influence. Leading to forget the often heroic efforts and the sufferings of doctors and nurses, of all healthcare personnel. On this day, I wish to reiterate the gratitude of the Republic for what you have done. And for what you continue to do every day, instilling confidence, witnessing humanity and solidarity, precious along with therapy treatments. She, President Mangiacavalli, wanted to recall the motto ‘No one saves himself’, which, in the days of covid, was not only the recognition of the human limit but an awareness, a leap in the relationships of our communities”.
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