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They are the most fragile people, often already suffering, with limited ability to survive the attack of virus. And in fact, between February 1 and April 30, 2020, the Higher Institute of Health registers the elderly who died in pandemic there were 10,000. Approximate figure, because not all the deceased have been swabs. It is as if the epidemic has completely swallowed up a small municipality. Then he said to himself: “Never again a massacre like this.” Unfortunately, the Rsa I’m in the middle of a new attack on COVID-19 and the dead are counted again. “What happened? That the managers of the nursing homes were left alone. There is no indication, they have covered the expenses of purchase of personal protective equipment and the government does not want to reimburse them. But it tells us to open the cuddle rooms for Christmas , so that family members can hug their loved ones, but how do you do it under these conditions? “Says Alberto De Santis, national president of Anaste, the National Association of Structures for the Elderly.
Covid, rapid tests and hugs of salt: Christmas (sad) at the RSA
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The landscape is grim everywhere. 120 are infected in the geriatric center of Santa Margherita di Pavia, where the doctor in charge of Covid patients has resigned. Thirty guests died in the space of a month in the Small Royal Palace of Venaria Reale, in Turin, and the Public Ministry opened a file, investigations also underway on the Opera pia divina provididenza, in Ivrea, where in fifteen days the virus killed seventeen patients. In a week, Alice de Forno Canavese was evacuated and the 22 guests were transferred to the hospital, at the Fransousa Foundation in Chiomonte, in the Susa Valley, 36 of 68 patients are positive and family members complain that they no longer hear from them. In Faenza, the outbreak in Santa Teresa del Bambin Gesù (72 patients) is worrisome, in Apulia two deaths and all infected in the Ilivere Insieme residence in Conversano, four victims and 36 positives in the Domus sancta Familia “in Locorotondo, one dead and eleven sick in Monte de los Poor de Rutigliano. Chaos in Rsa Santa Maria di Crotone, where the doctor Antonio Pugliese died: 64 infected without more operators to help them, the provincial health company of Crotone has taken control of the residence and The mayor asks to establish the red zone to limit the spread of the virus. If the first wave of Covid was violent, the second is insidious, experts warn. Research presented by the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics shows that now in the Rsa the Transmission of infection occurs with few milder symptoms and a case fatality rate of 19.2%.
“The presence of fewer and milder symptoms in elderly residents suggests that to block the transmission of Covid in structures it is not enough to rub those who show some symptoms,” says President Raffaele Antonelli-Incalzi. “Most of those who have contracted the virus do not present the classic signs of the disease and to prevent the appearance of new outbreaks, avoiding noticing the infection too late, carpet tests in RSA are needed, regardless of whether the elderly have symptoms of COVID-19 “. And then close everything, warns De Santis: «You have to limit the damage, now it’s a crescendo of infections and victims. The RSA welcomes people in their nineties, just a mustache and they leave. That is why I say that the embrace rooms are out of place. Not even with quick family tampons? “In structures that have no value for health, there is no doctor, so a nurse must perform the test. What if something goes wrong? The assembly of the Dpcm puts all responsibility on the structures and on those responsible who, given the situation, cannot do more than rigorous closures.
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