PALERMO (ITALPRESS) – The 4th National Congress of the Italian Hospitallers Association closed today in Palermo, the main annual appointment of Italian hospital surgery. Four days of scientific comparison and professional updating that brought together over 1600 participants from all over Italy, with 45 scientific sessions, 5 symposia, 64 partners and 75 thousand online views.
The Congress, chaired by Pierenrico Marchesa and Antonello Mirabella, focused on “Surgery between art and technology. Why believe it again”, addressing the main knots of contemporary surgery: technological innovation, robotics, artificial intelligence, increased reality, formation of young surgeons, emergency surgery, oncological networks, relationship between Hub and Spoke, volumes, outcomes and skills.
It also meant the participation of the institutions. The inaugural ceremony was attended, among others, the mayor of Palermo Roberto Lagalla, the Regional Councillor for Health Marcello Caruso, the Regional Councillor for Production Activities Edmondo Tamajo and the General Inspector of Military Health, General Carlo Catalano.
The Palermo edition also had a strong appeal to civil memory, with the commemoration of the monument dedicated to Giovanni Falcone, in the presence of the mayor of Isola delle Femmine Orazio Nuvoloso, and the meeting at Palazzo Jung with Giuseppe Ayala, public ministry of the Maxiprocesso of Palermo, and Antonello Cracolici, president of the Regional Commission Antimafia. “We return from Palermo with great satisfaction for participation, for the scientific quality of comparison and for the response of the institutions”, says Vincenzo Bottino, national president ACOI. “This Congress has shown that Italian hospital surgery is a living community, able to discuss its future with seriousness, competence and sense of public responsibility.”.
For Bottino, the message emerged from Congress is clear: “Technological innovation, training, surgical networks and outcomes must walk together. Robotics, artificial intelligence and new technologies value when improving patient safety, make youth training stronger and help the National Health Service ensure quality care in a fair and measurable way.” “Palermo and Sicily welcomed ACOI with generosity and attention”, concludes Bottino. “I thank the city, the institutions, the presidents of Congress, the speakers, the partners and all the colleagues who contributed to making this edition an important moment for the future of Italian surgery.”.
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