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In Sardinia there is a red alert.
In a week, new cases of contagion jumped from 101 to 186, according to data from the regional bulletin, hospitalizations continue to increase and the beds available in the three Covid spas have ended.
In addition, the virus has also circulated again within hospitals.
On Wednesday at the Provincial Council, the Councilor for Health Mario Nieddu announced that the Covid seats occupied are 198 out of 255, but work is being done to recover other spaces in Santissima Trinità, then on Wednesday afternoon it was known that the Aou de Sassari he is setting up apartments and yesterday it was decided to set up a field hospital in the San Francesco di Nuoro parking lot.
“The situation in Sardinia is serious”, underline Elisabetta Piu and Susanna Montaldo, representatives of the doctors and directors of the union confederation, “the hospitals are saturated, also because there are difficulties in accepting patients who would not need hospitalization but cannot go to home, health personnel are exhausted and the shortage of personnel is very great: the number of beds can also be increased, but it is useless if there are no professionals to make them work.
“The positives among health workers in operating units are increasing more and more,” they add, “although we are very careful and use all protection devices, the risk is very high.”
Between Wednesday and yesterday alert in Brotzu, where some positive cases were found (would be 8 employees and two patients) in the Nephrology department. Patients have been transferred to the Holy Trinity, while health workers are in solitary confinement in their homes.
“The rest of the personnel who came into contact with the positives were examined, the result of which was negative,” said a statement from the company. The department “continues, and has continued throughout the period of the confinement, the hospitalization and dialysis activities. Nephrology has 20 beds (currently all occupied) and receives about 100 patients daily, for a total of about 39 thousand accesses to a year. An important flow that in this phase of the resurgence of the virus can inevitably lead to contagion risks “.
(Unioneonline)
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