Lambrate. The garden between Ponzio and Bassini streets is named after Renato Boeri
Commander of the Resistance, neurologist and founder of the Bioethics Council, he dedicated his life to science and the care of the sick - Photo gallery
Milan, May 16 2022 – On the centenary of his birth, which took place in Milan on 15 May 1922, the Municipality of Milan named the garden between Ponzio and Bassini streets, in the near the Carlo Besta Institute, of which he was co-founder, head physician from 1968 and director from 1977 to 1987.
Present at the ceremony, together with the representatives of the Administration and the president of the Milan section of the ANPI, Roberto Cenati, were the three sons of the famous neurologist: the journalist Sandro, the architect Stefano and the economist Tito, born from the marriage with Italian designer Cini Boeri.
Among the numerous merits accrued during his life, dedicated to medical science, to the care of the sick, to the dignity and humanity of patients, Renato Boeri includes having proposed, through the Bioethics Council, which he established, to adopt the Charter of self-determination, to allow each person to give advance instructions on the care to receive or refuse in the event of impossibility to express their will.
A project started by a great Milanese man, who gave all Italians the opportunity to provide information on their end of life thanks to the Advance Treatment Provisions (DAT), which became national law in 2017.
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Updated: 17/05/2022