(Adnkronos) - “Crediamo che l'esposizione di studenti e specializzandi a contesti con basse risorse ci permetta di fare meglio il nostro mestiere, che è quello di formare e fare ricerca”. Così, il professore Pietro Invernizzi, direttore del dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia dell'università Milano-Bicocca e di Bridge (Bicocca research and innovation for development and global health) - Uganda, intervenuto a margine della presentazione del nuovo progetto dell'università Milano-Bicocca, che parte dal capoluogo lombardo e arriva nel distretto di Gulu, nel Nord dell’Uganda.
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00:00The Bridge project, or rather the name Bridge, was given to a headquarters that will have
00:09Bicocca in the heart of a hospital in northern Uganda, the Choro Hospital, and it is part
00:15of a path of projects that have been accelerated very quickly, which brings Bicocca, medicine
00:26and many other departments of Bicocca, all of the Ateneo, to want to invest and work
00:32in low-income countries.
00:33In the specific of the students, as you ask me, and of the specialists, therefore undergraduates
00:39and post-graduates, so specialists and doctorates, we strongly believe that exposure in certain
00:50low-resource contexts allows us to do our job better, which is to train and do research.
00:59In terms of training, we have also defined and named a training method, which is called
01:07the two-pillar project, meaning for the two pillars the training of the professional,
01:14the doctor, the obstetrician, any professional who dedicates himself professionally to the
01:22health of human beings, so to explain how to give drugs, how to do diagnoses, and also
01:30on this the exposure in those contexts helps, but the other pillar is what we focus on
01:39a lot, that is the training of the human components of these professionals, because to be
01:44good doctors and good nurses you also need to have a relationship, let's call it adequate,
01:50with illness and death.
01:53It seems trivial, but in a world where they are immersed, where the relationship with these
01:59components of reality is increasingly difficult, let's look around, you can't not be careful
02:08in training these new generations on this aspect, so the two-pillar project is to go
02:13in those contexts, in Africa, but it could be in any other part of the world with those
02:19characteristics, it wants to reach, it wants to allow us this goal.
02:23For years we have seen young people or less young people move in those contexts and when
02:31they return, we who are here, we ask ourselves, but what happened, but what happened, because
02:39we see them transformed, charged, with empathy, with a desire to heal, not only to give therapies,
02:46to take care of themselves, and then we simply organized and institutionalized the exhibition
02:55that we already knew would have given a lot to our young people and even if indirectly
03:02to us, to the system and to the world in which we live, in rich countries, let's say, or with many resources.