Hospitals, race against time to create 5,500 new intensive care places

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The maxi-plan to defend the hospitals from the second wave of Covid is ready: “We published a super-fast announcement to start working with the works that will open at the end of the month,” he anticipates. Sole 24 Mineral the Emergency Commissioner Domenico Arcuri who pulls the strings of this operation in which the Government and the Regions have worked this summer aligning the need for beds, which will be used for the most serious patients who need to be intubated, hospital by hospital.

To avoid a new tsunami in the wards, as happened last spring in the first wave of Covid that brought many health establishments to their knees, 1,044 works are ready to begin in 457 hospitals and 176 health companies. The goal is to add 3,443 beds in intensive care and 4,123 in subintensive care, half of them convertible to intensive care, for which 5,500 additional beds will be allocated to the most seriously ill patients. Already in the months of the harshest emergency, the number of beds had risen in a matter of weeks from 5,000 to more than 7,000, now thanks to the new dowry, 11,000 precious beds will be reached in intensive care, which will be increased if necessary to 13 thousand thanks to the 2 thousand divers. – intensive transformable.

More than a billion plans

The announcement of the commissioner of the design, management and testing works that is about to be published and that should be operational from today provides answers before October 12, then there will be 10 days for the awards. The plan has a value of 1,100 million, allocated by the relaunch decree of last May, in addition to 250 million euros to modernize the emergency room with new equipment, separate paths and dedicated diagnostic areas. In a week, the request for a public offer to buy new fans will begin, even if the commissioner’s structure already has a thousand unused last spring.

Construction works will begin at the end of October.

“At the end of October we will sign the contracts and the works will begin, we already have 336 companies ready to work divided into 21 lots”, warns the commissioner Arcuri. Which underlines that 10 Regions will take advantage of the rapid procedures launched by the commissioner who will have the “guide” for this operation. That is: Basilicata, Calabria, Lazio, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Umbria, Sardinia and Tuscany. “On the other hand, the other Regions have asked us that the delegation implement the hospital plans” and, therefore, the governors will be named “commissioners” as provided for in the relaunch decree. In practice, Arcuri will appoint the presidents of the regions as delegated commissioners for the implementation of the different regional plans.

But if for Abruzzo, Campania, Friuli, Puglia, Sicily and the Aosta Valley this “delegation will be full” and, therefore, the procedures and construction works will be their responsibility, “even if we do the controls later”, Emilia Romagna , Liguria, Bolzano, Trento and the Veneto region will be supported by the commissioner structure and “will make use of our work and therefore our awards if they consider it useful,” explains Commissioner Arcuri.