VATICAN - Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital (www.ospedalebambinogesu.it) Portal is three years old: over 91 million ‘hits’ and 21.000 ‘registered visitors’ including 1,500 doctors.

Monday, 4 October 2004

Vatican City (Fides Service) - Three years have passed since the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital famous all over the world, opened its own Paediatric Health Portal, www.ospedalebambinogesu.it the first of its kind on 25 September 2001.
The Portal is proving to be most successful, judging from the numerous visitors and registered users and awards and recognition received in the national and international medical field. The most recent was an award presented by the Italian minister of health Girolamo Sirchia in recognition of the Portal’s utility to facilitate access to services, as a means of communication and for preventive health care and treatment.
Every day thousands of people use the Portal. In these three years of activity no less than 91 million hits have been recorded and some 21,000 registered users avail of the web site’s wealth of information and services.
Through this new experience the hospital is helping to spread a new health culture, filling a void of information, service and assistance. Today, when the Internet is fast becoming a normal service in every home, the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital Portal Portal at the service of professionals, parents and children is a project of international scope employing the latest IT technology to invent a new way of offering improved medical care. (AP) (4/10/2004 Agenzia Fides; Righe:22; Parole:234)


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