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He died waiting for the molecular swab of the covid. After hours in an ambulance in front of the Sulmona hospital and the night lying on an uncomfortable gurney inside. Attilio Caranfa, 80 years old from Rome and domiciled in Villalago (L’Aquila), died in the old emergency room, which effectively became a Covid area despite not being equipped to treat patients infected by the virus. The elderly man tested positive by rapid swab and waited for the molecular test response.
A death that comes after weeks for the hospital doctors, the union, the CISL, protesting the lack of staff, beds, organization. As if the months since the first wave had passed in vain. In the last few days, in fact, the operators had threatened to go to the legal lvie, while this very night the insiders were thinking of requesting the intervention of the Nas to trigger the investigations and verifications of the case in that narrow and dangerous space.
A true illegal covid zone that has recently welcomed up to ten patients, six in the last hours, despite not having a negative pressure zone and what is necessary for the treatment of Covid patients. Once the death was verified, the ritual procedures were started and it is not ruled out that, at the request of the department’s staff, the carabinieri intervened to check whether the death of the old man could or could not be avoided if there had been an equipped area.
One of the first to denounce the emergency situation at the Sulmona hospital between covid and lack of beds, as we said, was the CISL Medici, which in the days that passed sent a document to the General Directorate, asking that “the Sulmona hospital can improve its organization always taking into account the good of the patient and that of the operators ”.
“As if seven months had not passed, we are once again in the midst of a health emergency that leads to the lack of beds. That is why a patient who comes to the emergency room in Sulmona and needs hospitalization runs the risk of having to wait even more than a day before a place is free in the region – underlines Gianna Tollis, director of CISL Medici – L ‘assistance it is ensured by the already scarce first aid personnel that is divided between normal first aid, pre-triage and, now, old first aid, where patients waiting for a bed are transferred.
