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Caution is essential, but the direction is correct. If Piedmont confirms and consolidates the data on the decrease in hospitalizations and new positives for the whole of next week, the transition to the yellow zone will begin on December 13. A moment especially awaited by bartenders and restaurateurs, who have been raising the blinds for more than a month only for home delivery and take away food. With the entry into the yellow zone they could reopen, although the possibility of consumption in the interior would be limited to the 5-18 hour band. An important change would also affect travel: in fact, the ban on leaving the municipality of residence would be lifted, with the exception of the specific limitations provided at the national level for the Christmas holidays. With a further decline in hospitalizations – minus 16 in intensive care and minus 137 in other departments, but with a very high number of deaths: 92 reported in the last bulletin – Piedmont is preparing, on the one hand, for a new relaxation of measures and on the other, the review of the pandemic plan to face a possible new resurgence of the virus. “We have experienced the speed with which Covid can attack again and we must act in the conversion times of the departments, so that the response of the health system is immediate,” explains the regional manager for the emergency Gianfranco Zulian. The plan, drawn up under the coordination of regional health services planning chief Franco Ripa, should be ready by December 20. “The last update dates back to September 23, it was time to reflect on what can be optimized and improved,” explains Zulian. “With the sanitary companies we are verifying potential and critical questions about the situation of the bed, of the intensive cares and of the transformation of the departments”. After all, the second wave accounted for more than a thousand more hospitalizations than the first: “A huge burden. We have not collapsed, but we certainly cannot lower our guard. The goal is for the hospital’s response to be faster and more structured. But above all, when possible, prevent it, by strengthening territorial medicine. A medium-term objective, which is also the axis of the new regional law proposal presented yesterday by Councilor Luigi Icardi to the medical representatives and then to the regional Councilors during a session of the Health Commission. The law aims to introduce fresh resources – between 10 and 12 million – obtained in the folds of the regional budget, to be allocated to group medicine and support network. The plan, illustrated in detail by former minister Ferruccio Fazio, whom Cirio wanted to lead the working group in charge of the reconstruction of territorial medicine, foresees using the funds to equip the offices of family doctors with personnel dedicated to the management of Computer and administrative activities and introduce the figure of the community nurse in a generalized way, in charge of assisting the doctor also in the home management of patients. “Finally we go from words to deeds,” says Roberto Venesia, regional secretary of the Federation of Family Physicians. – © REPRODUCTION RESERVED.
