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The news is from a few weeks ago but it is only now beginning to circulate: a 37 year old nurse who worked in a renowned Lombard public health company, in an intensive coronary unit transformed with the advent of the pandemic in the Covid area, he took his own life in the living room bathrooms. He had been found by a colleague, suspected of his long absence, with a bag, with a venous access to the arm and an empty bottle of physiological solution. Just a few days ago, the Judicial Power, dismissing the case, established that the man voluntarily took his own life: he left a wife and a 3-year-old son. The nurse had come several times to the territorial psychiatry service for help, due to the stress accumulated for some time. He suffered from depression. His colleagues report an obvious deterioration with the massive return of Covid-19 cases.
Suicides among nurses and health social workers: the precedents
In March, a 34-year-old nurse working in the San Gerardo intensive care unit in Monza decided to take her own life after testing positive for the virus: even then, colleagues spoke of severe stress from the health emergency and the fear. having infected someone. On April 28, a nurse from the Pulmonology department of the San Carlo hospital in Milan took her own life. In June, however, a 34-year-old Oss (health social worker) working in the intensive care unit of a Milan hospital was saved by his sister: he said he could not get over the pain of too many deaths he witnessed and who was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Health personnel exposed to Covid and psychological distress
Doctors, nurses and health personnel are not only exposed to Covid: depression, anxiety, insomnia are just some of the psychological and psychological pathologies that arise in the face of the pandemic. A scientific study published as early as March (“Factors Associated with Mental Health Outcomes Among Healthcare Workers Exposed to Coronavirus Disease 2020”) reported the results of a survey of 1,257 healthcare workers from 34 Chinese hospitals that had than to help infected patients: 50 percent developed some form of depression, 45 percent suffered from anxiety, 34 percent from insomnia, and 71.5 percent had generalized psychological distress. According to a survey conducted by the Milan State University of 650 health workers and carried out during the Covid emergency, 4 out of 10 showed mental discomfort: among the causes, stress, high emotional load, long hours, worries are reported. contracting the intention or transmitting it to family members, the lack of adequate support in the workplace and the social stigma due to increased exposure to the disease.
On April 11, Inail in collaboration with the National Council of the Association of Psychologists published a document for stress management and burnout prevention in health workers in the Covid 19 emergency to “provide support and psychological support to workers of health, through the dissemination of a methodological route and useful tools for the activation of individual intervention services in the area ”.
De Rosa (M5s): Psychological support is needed for those we used to call heroes
Of “tragedies that highlight the burden to which people whose efforts seem forgotten are subjected, with the same speed with which we have begun to call them heroes”, speaks on fanpage.it the leader of the 5 Star Movement in the Region of Lombardy, Massimo De. Rosé. The Lombardy Regional Council approved on December 2 the Agenda presented by Councilor Raffaele Erba (5-Star Movement) in which he asks to ensure support for those who face the coronavirus on the front line. “We asked the Lombardy Region – explains De Rosa – to commit itself by allocating resources, equivalent to two million euros, in order to make available, free of charge, psychological support to professionals, families, young people and anyone else. person who has undergone the Covid Experience transfer. Not only did we get the Region to commit to consolidating the figure of the school psychologist. During the budget session, under discussion in the next few days, we will present amendments aimed at giving economic concretion to the commitments previously signed by the Region on our proposals ”.
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