It began at 8 at Piazza Parlamento, in the space in front of the headquarters of the Military Southern Command Region with the staff at the Command, the Documentation Center of Palermo, the VFP1 Selection Center, the 46 ° Transmission Regiment and the Supply Section and maintenance.
The donation activity will continue in December 15 days at the Scianna barracks with the staff of the 4 ° Guild Engineers Regiment and will end the 16 next January at the Cascino barracks with the staff of the 6 ° Lancieri Regiment of Aosta.
Several hundred soldiers in service in the city who will undergo all donation, a way to be close to those suffering in the approach of the holiday season, in a difficult social moment.
With these words, Corrado Dalzini, commander of the Southern Military Region, opened the donation activity at Palazzo dei Normanni: "human blood is a natural product, not artificially reproducible and indispensable for life.
Donating blood, although it remains a voluntary and free act, is a civic duty, a concrete manifestation of solidarity with others and enhances the value of life. With these premises, the army, also in Palermo, has chosen to be in the front row in this momentum of due generosity ". The activity, to which the armed force has adhered throughout Italy, will allow Palermo to collect several hundred of units of blood offered to the city community by officers, non-commissioned officers, graduates and civil defense personnel, who participated and will participate in absolute spontaneity and in full respect of privacy, guaranteed by AVIS with an exclusive donor-doctor relationship.
Source: Southern Military Region Command
