The player suffering from arrhythmia a year ago supports the initiative together with parliamentarians and experts: “We must fight misinformation”
Approximately 65 thousand people in Italy lose their lives every year due to lack of first aid, one person suffers a cardiac arrest every 7 minutes and a life expectancy of 75% if a correct maneuver is practiced in the first minute following the damage, with the use of the automatic defibrillator. These are the numbers illustrated to the Senate for the presentation of the so-called Bove law, the bill proposed by Senator Marco Lombardo to make all first aid maneuvers more effective in our country. And as testimonial, Edoardo Bove himself, almost a year after that cursed first December last year, when the midfielder risked his life due to an arrhythmia during Fiorentina-Inter.
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It begins with a phone call from a 4-year-old English boy, Roman, who saves his mother’s life by calling the safety number. Then the words of Senator Lombardo on the compulsory nature of the maneuvers and the words of Edoardo, visibly moved. “For me it is a reason of great pride to be there – says the current Roma midfielder – I am a professional, what happened to me happened to me on a Serie A pitch, where there are different security systems compared to amateur pitches or on the streets. But I am here above all because I have come into contact with many associations, I have seen their pain first-hand. Foundations founded by parents who have lost children or brothers and who have done something in their memory. However, I have remained within me the feeling that not everything has always been done to save those lives. I’m honored that my name is on this law, but it also embarrasses me a little because it’s not fair to take credit for situations where there are people who have spent a long time. I wish this was the law for many other people, I can also think of guys like Astori or Mattia Giani, for example. This law is also for them. The playing field is that of schools, sports centres, where there is the will to learn and also the courage.” Then the tears, precisely, because Bove still has a heart and it is very big. “I’ve been crying for a year…”.
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Then the word passes to Andrea Scapigliati, president of the IRC and to senator Licia Ronzulli. “Behind every rescue there is a life that can start again, a person can make the difference when they know how to do the right maneuvers – says the senator – This is a law that is not only necessary, but necessary. The real weak point is people’s preparation, in many countries children grow up knowing what to do in emergency situations. This is why it is essential to bring the culture of first aid into schools”. Then the Minister of Sport and Youth Andrea Abodi: “An event like this happened to me 40 years ago, when my 13-year-old cousin went down playing football and never got up again. These 65 thousand people who die every year in Italy are the sum of the pain that we cannot help but feel. The culture of life is probably missing, which never enters the educational agendas. While life must always be a theme at the center of our thoughts. We also owe it to the smallest and most fragile.”
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