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The pressure on the local health system is cause for concern. Doctors and nurses “are exhausted”, declared the epidemiologist and next regional health adviser, Pierluigi Lopalco. Alarm also from the union Fimmg Puglia, sector Emergency Urgency: “System 118 is already collapsing today. If we want to avoid other deaths, we must immediately make the red zone of the Region”
It could be the seventh region to enter the red zone. Puglia would be close to changing the band from the current orange to the red where more restrictive measures are foreseen and adding Valle D’Aosta, Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, Campania, Calabria and the province of Bolzano. The president of the Region Michele Emiliano asks the government to take care of it and awaits the analysis of the data by the control room of the Ministry of Health (LIVE UPDATES – SPECIAL).
Lopalco: “Very stressed hospital operators”
Pierluigi Lopalco, epidemiologist and regional health counselor, intervenes at this time: “Operators are very stressed, so any initiative that could loosen control of hospitals and local health is welcome.” According to a part of the 21 indicators of the Ministry of Health that establish the risk areas, Puglia is still in the orange zone, since the Rt index is around 1.44.
The situation in Apulian hospitals
deepening
Covid, Medici: “In Puglia 118 is collapsing. We need the red zone “
The element that generates the alarm is that of hospitalization. Meanwhile, the Region has just turned the Putignano hospital into Covid with the activation of the first 31 beds and is installing the field hospital in Barletta, while intensive care is also beginning to worry. Among the hypotheses on the table for Puglia is also that of creating red zones for the provinces. The change of area could arrive next Friday when the 15 days indicated by the Ministry of Health to re-evaluate the position have passed.
Also from Nicola Gaballo, a reference for the Fimmg Puglia union, “Emergency Urgency” sector, a request was made to make Puglia a red zone: “System 118 in Puglia is already collapsing today. If we want to avoid other deaths, we must immediately the region out of the red zone, “he warned. “The calls keep coming in and the emergency vehicles cannot keep up with everyone – says Gaballo – Covid cases are constantly increasing and we are also involved in secondary transport, from one hospital to another, where they could instead be used. dedicated vehicles. The result is that the 118 can no longer cover emergencies of another type today. ”
