GPs: “The measures of the dpcm? Last attempt, otherwise inevitable crash.” Hospitals: “It may not be enough”

“The measures of the new dpcm are the last attempt of the government before an inevitable total block, if they don’t work. “For the president of the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo) Filippo Anelli The provision that will go into effect at midnight on October 25 is the last chance before having to completely shut down the country. That of the government, he said speaking from the Ansa agency, “is a great bet to keep production and health protection together, but if within 15 days indicators will get worse, I think it is the responsibility of the government to take even more drastic measures with a total block“.

According to Anelli, the measures adopted “may not be sufficient and, therefore, we could find ourselves faced with the need for a generalized closure. Is if the contagion curve does not drop in such a way that it allows the National Health Service to face this second epidemic wave of Covid-19 with some tranquility ”. Today’s interventions, he notes, “severely limit citizens’ free activities and free time, but the labor front has been preserved. However The epidemic indicators are currently unfavorable. and this raises the fear that such measures may be insufficient ”. From Anelli, the Prime Minister was also thanked for the words addressed to the doctors and the National Health Service: “The recognition of the availability of doctors at this time of emergency is very important.”

Anelli’s position that is shared by Carlo Palermo, secretary of the largest of the hospital doctor unions, theAnaao-Assomed. The situation in the hospitals “is very serious and absolutely critical,” he always told Ansa, “with the emergency room and services now jammed and the 118 flooded with calls: with this rate of infections in the second week of November intensive therapies will saturatewhile the places in the ordinary and sub-intensive Covid departments are already suffering a lot ”. The new dpcm, he added, is “a balance point between economic and health needs, but it may not be enough. “What is described, Palermo points out,” is almost a blockade in fact, but if there are no concrete results in terms of reducing infections, then a total blockade will be inevitable. “In fact, it is “Obviously, the pressure on hospitals is becoming unbearable, since the possibility of containing the epidemic through local services has practically disappeared.” This is because “tampons are not enough, home care is almost absent with Usca doctors unit for home treatments that have organic problems, and with the monitoring system now impossible given the very high number of infections ”. In this context, he concludes, “the only garrison citizens flock to are the hospitals, which, however, are also besieged by patients with small symptoms who do not need hospital treatment or by citizens who require tampons ”.

Also perplexed by Andrea Crisanti, professor of microbiology at the University of Padua: “The measures implemented with the new dpcm are measured with a temporary and not decisive effect”. The point, he explained, is that “until a plan is drawn up to consolidate the results possibly derived from more restrictive measures, we will inevitably continue in this spiral of contagion.” According to Crisanti, we should “implement a surveillance plan that, once we manage to reduce infections through more restrictive measures as we all hope, we will be able to keep them low and under control ”. There is, he stressed, “various examples of virtuous countries who have been successful at this, from Taiwan to Korea. In addition to the measures illustrated today by the Prime Minister, it would be necessary to adopt a strategy that has never been implemented in Italy until now ”. It is about implementing a “real surveillance plan that foresees a targeted tracking to interrupt the transmission chains, effective computer tools and strengthening the diagnostic capacity”. According to Crisanti, we should “implement a surveillance plan that, once we have managed to reduce infections through more restrictive measures as we all hope, we will be able to keep them low and under control ”. There are, he stressed, “several examples of virtuous countries that have achieved this goal, from Taiwan to Korea. In addition to the measures illustrated today by the Prime Minister, it would be necessary to adopt a strategy that has never been implemented in Italy until now ”. It is about implementing a “actual surveillance plan that foresees focused follow-up to interrupt transmission chains, effective IT tools and strengthening of diagnostic capacity “.