Happy birthday to the Italian Territorial Emergency Service (118): Thirty years of your valuable service
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Sunday 27th March 2022 marked 30 years of activity of the Italian Territorial Emergency Service, also known as “118”, which was officially set up in Italy on 27th March 1992 by a presidential decree, with the aim of creating a single number for sanitary emergencies that would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, free of charge throughout the country. [...]
Decreto Legislativo 502/92. Gazzetta Ufficiale 76, 27th March 1992.
Perrone M. 118, una storia lunga 30 anni: e adesso? Policy and Procurement in Healthcare, 2022. Available form: https://www.pphc.it/118-storia-30-anni/
Congresso Nazionale di Emergenza Urgenza. Carta di Riva. 2021. Available from: https://www.aniarti.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Carta_di_Riva_20-09_21-r.pdf
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