No more beds

A line of ambulances with patients on board waiting to enter the “Sagrada Familia” hospital Fatebenebratelli from Grass, in the province of Como. It is the image immortalized yesterday afternoon November 4th, a few hours before Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the red zone in Lombardy. How do they communicate a Fanpage.it from the hospital: “There are no more beds in the Covid-19 area.” Yesterday in the pavilion they counted 72 hospitalized, of which 10 in intensive care. One ambulance after another arrived at the hospital hoping to be able to hospitalize Covid patients on board, but without success: “We had to fire them all, making them converge on other health facilities.” Today, Thursday, November 5, the hospital announced that they had increased the number of beds: from 72 to 81, but they were all occupied in a short time. “Now we really don’t have any more space. This is our maximum capacity.”

Full capacity reached Wednesday morning

The photo went through social networks and immediately became a symbolic image of the gravity of this second wave. “The maximum capacity of the Covid-19 area was reached on Wednesday morning. And that is why we can no longer hospitalize people who are positive for Coronavirus ”. Here the situation is rapidly reaching the numbers of the first wave: “Once we have reached the maximum capacity of our facilities, immediately alerted 118 to ask that we not send more to other patients “. The ambulances stayed for a few minutes in the courtyard of the Fatebenefratelli waiting to know what other hospital could accommodate them.

Also exhausted at the Valduce hospital in Como

In this second wave, the virus does not spare the province of Como: only yesterday the Valduce hospital in the city of Como declared the default when asking for help from the hospitals in the area to transfer patients. “We are in great trouble. We are having a hard time admitting the sick. We no longer know where to put them,” they said. Fanpage.it From the hospital.