Coronavirus, Gallera: “Very fast surge, 150 intensive places activated. Fair hospital? If necessary, we will find staff”

“In the last four days there has been a very rapid increase, but the system was ready and reactingThus, the Councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region, Giulio Gallera, comments, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, handling the new wave of coronavirus infections that is hitting Lombardy and, in particular, Milan. Yesterday, Wednesday, October 13, the cases registered in the region were 1,844 in just one day, with 29,048 swabs carried out. Rise of positives, particularly in the province of Milan: 1,032 cases, of which 504 only in the capital. “The situation has changed very suddenly as of October 10, but it must also be said that this growth in infections it is no different from Lazio, Sicily, Campania, Liguria and even VenetoGallera said. The Lombard health system “is prepared and structured. Of course, there are phases that require their time and, I repeat, the acceleration of infections was very fast, among other things in the face of at least 20 thousand tampons a day. An average of 10 percent is positive and admissions are between 100 and 150 per day“, Continues the commissioner.

“The hospital plan has been ready since June: there are 18 central hospitals where we added 1,550 beds, including 150 in intensive care and 400 in sub-intensive care, we asked another 9 hospitals with pulmonology to create 300 Covid beds and we managed the transfer to other facilities of patients who were admitted for other pathologies and positive asymptomatic results ”. The regional plan “foresees that if we reach 150 beds occupied in intensive care, the hospital opens in La Fiera“in Milan. The problem of the lack of doctors and nurses to make it work” is still open, but if necessary we will find them “. Gallera then stressed that”the attention is high, but the system has been running and is responding. But measures are also needed to stop the infection ”.

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