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“Good morning, this is Minister Bonafede. I wanted to congratulate you.” This is the phone call that Rinaldo Ruggiano, a prison police officer serving at Icam, a facility dependent on San Vittore in Milan, received yesterday morning. Hero for a day, the good Rinaldo who, like many peers in his and our South, had to leave home and family affections to seek fortune and future prospects elsewhere. Rinaldo Ruggiano, - as anticipated by ilsannioquotidiano.net, comes from the Cerreta district of Sant'Agata de' Goti, is 46 years old. He is the Chief Assistant of the Penitentiary Police operating at the Institute with attenuated custody for detained mothers. A facility that, promoted on a national level on an experimental basis in 2006, allows women behind bars, who have no alternatives to the custody of their children, to be able to keep them with them.
Obviously being able to take advantage of various services and special internal attentions. The facts. For the assistant chief Ruggiano it is a normal working day.
THE HEROIC GESTURE DURING THE SERVICE
17-23 shift at the porter's lodge. At 21:XNUMX p.m., the Santagatese is informed that the daughter of one of the women inmates, a baby of a few weeks, has a fairly significant fever. Ruggiano, since there is no internal medical assistance during the afternoon hours, initiates the necessary telephone contacts but, just as he carries out these operations, the chief assistant sees the prisoner running towards him, stationed in the so-called "blindo", with the baby in his arms. The woman screams and despairs because the little girl is not breathing. She is cyanotic. Everyone goes, understandably, into a state of agitation; but the difference between life and death, in these cases, is made by readiness. Timeliness, coolness. Peculiarities that are not lacking in the Chief Assistant Saticulano who, understanding that the issue was played out in terms of moments, immediately takes charge of the little girl. Very quick instructions to the officer on duty at the section "not to open the armored car or the gates of the external structure for any reason". Then, baby in arms, the race to the nearby emergency room of the "Macedonia Melloni" hospital. Where Ruggiano arrives just in time for the doctors to save the little girl from death. In fact, once taken in, the baby was immediately placed in hyperventilation and, fortunately, will not suffer any consequences.
A little girl who will have a tomorrow thanks to a hero, a hero for a day, son of Saint Agatha de' Goti. Readiness, it was said, ability to make a timely decision, despite the particular context, despite the stress and responsibilities connected to the role. The superiors, obviously, approved the choice made, complimenting the Santagatese. A few hours ago, as anticipated, also reached by the "telephone" applause of the Keeper of the Seals. For him, on the next horizon, just recognition is expected
Article published on November 27, 2019 - 18:23
