This Monday, the plan of the Ministry of Health for World Youth Day (WYD) with Pope Francis in August was presented in Lisbon, which includes two field hospitals.
It is already known from the plan that it provides for the installation of two field hospitals with pre-hospital emergency medical equipment and with volunteers, including doctors, nurses and senior students from different areas of health.
According to the day’s latest figures, 1,200 health-trained people have already registered as volunteers.
On Saturday, Health Minister Manuel Pizarro said he reviewed the National Health Service (SNS) responses during the trip with “watchful calm”, assuring the device was “ready”.
The plan, unveiled this Monday, takes into account “the lessons of previous World Youth Days held in other countries, as well as other mass events that have already taken place in Portugal,” he said.
“We are going to install a set of significant facilities on the ground, including a full-fledged field hospital, in addition to hundreds of mobilized specialists, more than one and a half thousand volunteers. Behind all this, I am vigilantly calm,” he said. .
Given that this is an initiative that could bring together over a million people in the first week of August, it “requires attention and care.”
“But I expect that the funds we have mobilized will ensure the smooth operation. We are ready for a possible increase in demand. [dos serviços hospitalares]but we do not have an expectation that this will happen in general terms,” he said.
The presentation is scheduled for this Monday afternoon in Lisbon, in a session also attended by Américo Aguiar, Auxiliary Bishop of Lisbon and President of the World Youth Day Foundation.
The plan will be presented by Dr. António Marques, who is responsible for its development, and the meeting will be closed by the Minister of Health.
Although the organization has never given specific numbers, it is expected that some 1.5 million young people will take part in a worldwide meeting with the Pope between August 1 and 6 in the Portuguese capital.
The main WYD religious ceremonies are planned in Parque Eduardo VII and Parque Tejo (north of Parque Nações), covering the municipalities of Lisbon and Loures.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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