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“Where have the fans gone?” Francesco Boccia, Minister of Autonomies, raises his voice at a certain moment of the meeting with the governors. The accounts don’t add up. 1,600 intensive therapies are missing from the appeal. The executive blames the Presidents of the Regions for delays in programming, since the time between the first and second waves of Covid was: “What have you done in these six months?” And to prove it, the commissioner for the emergency Domenico Arcuri recites the data.
“In recent months to the Regions – he stresses, betraying a thread of anger – we have sent 3,059 pulmonary ventilators for intensive care, 1,429 for sub-intensive care; Before Covid there were 5179 intensive therapies, we have activated up to 9463 places, now 6628 are active, we had to have another 1,600 that are already available in the individual regions but are not yet active; I would ask the regions to activate them. We have another 1,500 ventilators, but before distributing them we would like to see activated the 1,600 intensive care beds for which we have already sent ventilators ”.
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Harsh words that point to a disconnect between the central state and local authorities, between the government of Rome that claims to have done everything possible and accuses the regions of laxity and the latter that responds harshly and wants to continue acting with total autonomy. As evidenced by the case of Campania with Vincenzo De Luca, which has closed schools and universities as of today. This is another reason why Minister Speranza tries to mediate, “the key to winning
and folding the virus is an institutional collaboration. ”
Data in hand In May, the executive with the Relaunch Decree allocated 1,400 million for the strengthening of hospitals. In the Sheriff De Luca Region on the day of the maximum peak of Covid infections, April 13, there were 599 intensive care beds, today it has fallen to 433, when instead – according to government calculations – it should be 566. Before of the emergency were 335. This means that compared to the pre-Covid period there was an increase of 98 beds, a figure considered insufficient for the government that distributed 458 fans in total to Campania.
Even in Lombardy, another region under observation that has issued a restrictive measure regarding the Prime Minister’s decree, the situation of the bed sends the government every public holiday. According to the official tables, those of Civil Protection, before the emergency there were 861 intensive care beds, during the peak it had reached 1800 but currently it has dropped drastically to 994. The ventilators supplied only to Lombardy are 669 All regions are reviewed. We arrived in Piedmont. Before the emergency there were 327 beds in intensive care, at the April peak 892 and now 485.
For the Ministry of Health and the Higher Institute of Health, there are ten regions at risk of maintaining intensive care: they are Abruzzo, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Liguria, Lombardy, Puglia, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria and Valle d ‘Aosta.
Basically, according to the government, the latest measure adopted would have been sufficient if all regions had fulfilled their duty to expand intensive care beds, maintain them, and be prepared for the second wave. “Maximum availability and maximum transparency, but – says Minister Boccia addressing the governors – the problem is where the fans have gone.” In short, “we have helped you, now we are waiting for answers in real time.”
It is the hard line of the executive to see that the regional presidents have surrounded Giuseppe Conte proposing ordinances in no particular order. “All governors have the autonomy to make more restrictive ordinances in the way they see fit. But if we have shared that the two pillars we must protect are school and work and ordinances affect those areas, a link between the government and the regions would be appropriate. We have always been at the side of all the Regions with materials, fans and resources ”, says Minister Boccia who does not give in on this aspect. Especially in these hours when the Regions are attacking the government.
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