“We wasted time against Covid”

A line of ambulances in front of the entrance to the emergency room of Santa Maria della Misericordia in Perugia. Within the crew and the patient, waiting to know where to be hospitalized and at what times. These are not Covid patients, but people in need of hospital care and for whom triage and accommodation procedures in the room after the transition to the emergency room require time, more extended due to the Covid emergency.

The report, with a photo, comes from the Perugia nurses union: “Hospital de Perugia, November 6, 2020 at around 9:30 pm. Patients in these ambulances will have to wait hours before getting off of them and being treated and / or hospitalized “.

According to the secretary of Nursind Perugia, Marco Erozzardi, “in 8 months we have gone from a region that is a symbol of efficiency to the fight against the pandemic (probably because it only touched us) to a region with the highest rate of ICU admissions and a very high ratio between positives and swabs performed “.

Months in which time would be wasted, knowing there would be a second wave. Months in which it would have been useful “to equip oneself with the necessary tools to organize to face the second wave – says Erozzardi – The retention of the regional health system is being risked due to largely avoidable errors, which are now almost impossible”.

To save lives and protect the system, first and foremost the health personnel, “a serious regional blockade is necessary. Without health, the economy will disappear anyway”, concludes the secretary of Nursind Perugia in the post published on Facebook.

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