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Doctors are raising the alarm: without a total lockdown, the hospital system threatens to collapse again.
The prayer benches have been removed from the church of the hospital in the Piedmont city of Orbassano. Under the watchful eye of the statue of St. Louis, the stretchers are now lined up together: the sick are now fed in the chapel. Because in the hospital itself there are no more beds due to the large number of Covid patients.
Orbassano is no exception. Across Italy, from north to south, hospitals are reaching their capacity limits. Tents have been set up in front of some emergency rooms, while ambulances with their new patients line up in front of others waiting to be admitted. Numerous operations have already been postponed.
These images look like cruel déjà vu, and are too reminiscent of the desperation and burden of the dramatic spring pandemic with its tens of thousands of deaths, when Italy’s healthcare system collapsed.
