(ANSA) - BERGAMO, 19 FEB - A letter has arrived in these days from the President of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati addressed to the general director of the Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo, Maria Beatrice Stasi, on the eve of the first National Day of health, social and health personnel, socioassistenziale and voluntary service ', established by Parliament last November for February 20, in memory of the day in which the' patient one 'in Europe was identified at the Codogno hospital.
President Casellati strongly wanted the institution of this day, considering it - he writes - "a moment of great symbolic value to allow our country to express its thanks to the many white coats that once again, in the course of this dramatic pandemic, offered us an extraordinary test of courage ".
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