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The alarm was raised by Carlo Palermo, secretary of the main Italian hospital doctors union, Anaao-Assomed. “Hospitals are not prepared to deal with an exponential epidemic,” he said again.
The epidemiological curve of the coronavirus in Italy continues to grow. This is, at least according to the latest bulletin issued yesterday by the Ministry of Health, which is apparent from the daily monitoring of the health emergency in our country. 4,619 new cases were registered of the 85,442 swabs performed: admissions to intensive care and routine treatment are also increasing, with 39 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. With the current figures for the Covid-19 pandemic, “Italian hospitals will be able to hold out for at least five months and for the moment the situation is manageable, but if we witness an exponential increase in cases as is happening in other countries like France, then the hospital system it wouldn’t last more than two months. ” These are the words, addressed to Ansa, by Carlo Palermo, secretary of the largest of the Italian hospital doctors unions, Anaao-Assomed.
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According to Palermo, in addition, if we go from about 5,000 daily infections to more than 10,000 as in France, he stressed again, “there is a risk that the first anti-Covid hospital trench will collapse, because hospitals are not prepared to attend a exponential epidemic “. At this time, therefore, the situation is under control, but “criticalities are already beginning to register, starting with the lack of health personnel and the structures that do not always guarantee differentiated paths,” said Anaao’s secretary.
“Now more tests to withstand the pandemic”
“We need more swabs, we need to expand the pandemic resistance system immediately. Tracking at school is critical. For this we need more tests, reagents, machinery to process them and personnel to make the samples ”, explained Palermo, as we read. on the Anaao site. “All this has a cost. If the resources are scarce, there is European financing within the Month (support for the pandemic crisis) that makes 36,000 million available to Italy, in tranches of 5 billion a month. We can have them in very a short time at an interest rate of 0.1% ”, he explained, insisting on the need to“ make more swabs so that the school, the students, their families, the children work and work safely. Teachers and school personnel. The swabs are the barrier against the spread of the epidemic. ” Among other things, again with regard to the situation in Italian hospitals, Palermo recalled that, in these days, the calls for technology and building works have begun to increase the number of beds in intensive care, another 3,500 in addition to the 6,500. already in operation and 4,200 new ones for subintensive therapy.
