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As Fanpage.it anticipated in recent days, the Campania region has decided to stop scheduled hospitalizations. What does that mean? That outpatient services will no longer be provided: is a herniated disc not at risk? It will not be operated. A cataract in the eye? Postponed. Warts, cysts, sclerotherapy and dozens of other minor surgeries, not vital, but important to a person’s life, will not be performed. Reason? There is a need for hospital beds to ensure space for the wave of Covid infections that is driving more and more people to hospital in Campania despite the large number of fortunately asymptomatic infected. The Regional Crisis Unit of ambulatory action in the organs of the National Health Service has obviously decided not to block urgent interventions, as well as dialysis, radiotherapy and cancer chemotherapy operations. The note from the Crisis Unit was sent to the general directors of the ASL, the hospitals, the university hospitals, the oncological institute ‘Pascale’. Only “non-deferrable” urgent hospitalizations can be performed and the suspension is valid for all scheduled hospitalizations, except for cancer patients.
Another important act of the last hours: given the shortage of beds in the Cotugno hospital, the infectious diseases unit on the front line against Covid in Naples, the Region has ordered that the beds in the hospital that is part of the Azienda dei Colli together with Monaldi and CT for Covid patients they will soon go from the current 180 to 260. We speak of both hospitalization and subintensive and intensive therapy. In addition, part of the Resuscitation of the Monaldi hospital could be allocated to Covid patients as already happened in the period of the confinement. We are also working to find other personnel units within the Azienda dei Colli to guide them to the best performance of Cotugno. The bed plan of the Campania region begins today, in the last days of October. The pandemic formally began in Campania in March, total closure in April and then from May June onwards ‘phase 2’.
Evidently Campania is meeting today delays of at least 6 months in which it was clear that the pandemic would last at least all of 2020 and despite this: there is no hiring of new personnel, the operation of the much acclaimed modular Covid centers is at stake, always very few molecular swabs to eliminate the asymptomatic.
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