Non-emergency care: 116117 number debuts at ULSS3
As of 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, one only needs to dial 116117 to find an answer in terms of social and health care throughout the territory of ULSS3 Serenissima, from Chioggia to Quarto d’Altino via Venice and Riviera del Brenta. The number replaces the one previously active for the continuity of care service (the better known medical guard) and offers support for the new services of territorial medicine, directing citizens to solutions to both health and social needs. The number is active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and can be accessed from landlines and cell phones for anyone in the Venetian territory, including tourists and visitors passing through, since cell phones, by hooking up to local telephone cells, are considered part of the territory’s utilities.
The number, manned by 36 operators working multiple shifts, has been activated, After an experiment on Bassano del Grappa (thanks to the different area code from the rest of the province of Vicenza), from the headquarters of the Territorial Operations Center at Piazzale Giustiniani in Venice which will soon be joined by the second central: “After seven months of testing on patients in District 1 of Bassano del Grappa, with 2,600 interventions, 16,000 calls and a level of satisfaction detected at 98% , the service offered goes live by extending to all the inhabitants of the territory of Ulss 3 Serenissima – Veneto Health Councillor Manuela Lanzarin explained at the presentation – by June 2026 it will be gradually extended to the entire territory of the ULSS of the Veneto Region by coordinating all activities from Mestre and the Vicenza area With the two Central Operations Centers working in parallel“.
Pellegrini and Porcellato unveil medals for Milan-Cortina 2026
Simple and elegant in design, but above all, environmentally sustainable. Last Tuesday 15 at Palazzo Balbi, headquarters of the Veneto Region, in the unique setting of Venice, the Organizing Committee of the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, together with two Italian sports legends such as Olympic champion Federica Pellegrini and Paralympic icon Francesca Porcellato, unveiled the official medals of Milan-Cortina 2026. Made by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (IPZS), the Official sponsor of the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, with an essential but refined design they represent two halves and symbolize the union of not only two cities, Milan and Cortina, but also Olympic and Paralympic values. A powerful metaphor to tell different worlds united by the competitive spirit. The event was attended not only by Veneto Region President Luca Zaia, Milan Cortina 2026 Foundation President Giovanni Malagò and its CEO Andrea Varnier, but also by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini. Also with him were Minister for Sport and Youth Andrea Abodi, Lombardy Region President Attilio Fontana, and the newly appointed presidents of CONI and CIP respectively, Luciano Buonfiglio and Marco Giunio De Sanctis. “We arrived in the running but from our side there is all the willingness to collaborate,” they said.
Flamingos at airport: risk in Venice lagoon
Whether one is an animal lover or not, the presence of birds near an airport poses quite a safety problem, both for the birds and for flight personnel and airplane passengers. Venice Marco Polo Airport in recent times has been facing a notable presence of flamingo specimens near its runways, raising no small amount of concern given plans to double its area by 2037 from 11 to 20 million passengers in transit each year. It is no coincidence, in this sense, that at the technical table convened last July 8, 2025 at the Public Works Superintendency for the Triveneto of the Ministry of Public Works, the animal welfare associations of LIPU Venice and WWF were also invited.
“We have many other areas with similar characteristics to the salt marshes outside the Marco Polo site where white flamingos as well as herring gulls and sacred ibis are stationed ,” explain from LIPU Venice. we assume that the massive presence in this area is the result of disturbance by human activities in areas more suitable for their presence within the lagoon. From flights of tourist planes in the northern part, through practices of photographing eareas and filming with drones, as well as unpermitted activities by some economic realities of bird removal. Even in the shallow areas, the typical “shoals,” navigation through them disturbs the animals, which thus congregate in the “quieter” area of the airport, because paradoxically they become more accustomed to constant noise than to sudden “.
When age matters, even for the skin
Some time ago while seeing a 93-year-old patient, a lady who was definitely smart for her age, told me that I always looked young to her. To this statement, which arose from the fact that it had been a few years since we had seen each other, I had to reply that she saw me as young, but the difference between my age and hers had remained the same.
We actually see people from our perspective, and as we advance in years, others look younger to us. We see them as young. In fact, however, age advances for everyone and brings changes.
