The coronavirus battle led the Alpini to build a field hospital in Bergamo, Italy.
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“The atmosphere in Bergamo has been one of sadness at not being able to say goodbye and not being able to do anything to help,” said Sergio Rizzini, an Alpini reservist who took over as general manager of the National Alpini Assn.’s field hospital division in 2015. “There’s a sense of powerlessness that we’re slowly overcoming; this project is helping.”
After the petition was launched, though, officials soon agreed to let the work begin. Over the next nine days, volunteers wearing leather bracelets engraved with the words “Mola mia” — “Never give up” in the local dialect — worked a total of 16,000 hours to complete the hospital.The hallways in the Alpini field hospital were designed to be extra wide, and the patient wards have walls but no ceilings to help the air circulate better and prevent the disease from spreading to healthcare workers.
The Alpini infantry was formed in 1872 to secure the northern border of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy. It is famous for its esprit de corps forged in the mountains’ harsh natural environment, Rizzini said. Today, eight regiments carry out both military and civilian aid missions around the world, including setting up field hospitals in response to natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
The entire space is divided into red, yellow and green zones, with physical barriers and special sanitation protocols in place for each section. Radiology, sanitation and analytical labs are housed in classic field hospital containers., who account for 12% of coronavirus cases in Italy, Rizzini said.
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