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Yesterday there were 110 new infections in Piedmont: 83 symptomatic, 8 imported. Less than 170 cases on Wednesday, more than 100 on Tuesday. The number that is striking is that of hospitalizations: 12 in intensive care, unchanged from Wednesday, 203 not in intensive care (plus 7). On September 1, the latter had 92: 111 more hospitalizations in a month. Hospitalizations: that is, symptomatic subjects who need pharmacological therapies and sometimes ventilation – although not invasive, therefore with a helmet – in health establishments to repel the attack of the virus. Yesterday, only in Mauriziano, 11 positive and two ventilated.
A double dynamic, therefore: that of new infections and that of hospitalizations. Enough to sound the alarm also in our region, as well as in the rest of Italy, and push the Dirmei, the department of intercompany emergency infectious diseases, to investigate the availability of hospitals in the activation of departments and hotels for positive patients . . “Taking into account the change in the data related to hospitalizations for Covid-19, we could be close to an increase in hospital commitment,” is the beginning of the statement. Next, the request for the definition of the ordinary, sub-intensive and intensive care rooms immediately available for hospitalization at each level of the company, the low-intensity care structures, the hotel-type structures and the minimum health facilities, identified with a public procedure , Allow the isolation of asymptomatic subjects or with few symptoms who do not have an adequate address to guarantee it.
Reactivation instead of department activation. For the moment, the discussion concerns public health establishments: accredited private establishments, with the exception of the Gradenigo hospital, have not yet been involved but if the epidemic curve worsens it will only be a matter of time, explains the Region. In fact, we moved slowly but steadily towards the reopening of the apartments installed with drum last winter, in the critical phase of an epidemic that fell suddenly and demobilized with relief last spring: first after the reduction of infections, and to recover tens of thousands of visits, exams, surgeries postponed during the long months of confinement. Services classified as non-urgent that in many cases, over time, have ended up being so: those that still weigh on waiting lists and have led the Region to implement an extraordinary disposal plan, financed with 35 million by the Ministry of Health.
The graphic on this page accounts for the first availability of local health authorities and Piedmont hospitals in the reactivation of beds for Covid patients: places that, of course, can be implemented if the numbers of the epidemic worsen. Knowing right now that the blanket cannot be stretched indefinitely: there is a limit beyond which it would be impossible, once again, to guarantee separate paths for Covid and non-Covid patients in hospitals, helping both in safety. Another clarification: the general numbers, for each individual structure, take into account the places for ordinary hospitalization, intensive and sub-intensive therapies.
In Turin, the Covid Hospital is back, cleared of the Ogr and close to being reborn in the Ophthalmic in via Juvarra to give breath to the Amedeo di Savoia, already saturated: next week the first 40 places will be activated, at the end of November another 40 Memory Clinic in Collegno, 20 beds, created for the care of Alzheimer’s patients and already used last winter to take in patientsthe positives. It goes without saying that the renewed effort will not only involve the logistical front but also that of the personnel – doctors, technicians, nurses, social and health workers – needed to run a complex machine.
