Coronavirus, Lombardy Region: “Stop planned interventions. Increased pressure from hospitalizations, save beds for Covid”

In Lombardy will no longer be carried out scheduled interventions, postponed to a later date. The movement of the Region, announced in a letter from the General Directorate ofWellness Department, is defined as a “preventive action” to “deal with the Increasing the pressure of hospitalizations for Covid “in regional structures and to” avoid emergency situations that currently do not exist. “However, the recommendation is clear, as is the number of patients affected by SARS-CoV-2 that currently fill the hospitals of Lombardy.

The recommendation is to reorganize theoperational activity guaranteeing the urgent interventions and those oncological, postponing planned interventions to preserve Beds me places in resuscitation to Covid patients. They are currently hospitalized in hospitals in the region. 4,934 patients with Covid, others 565 are assisted in intensive care, where only in the last 24 hours have been registered 50 tickets.

According to data fromNational Agency for Regional Health Services, Lombardy has already far exceeded the critical threshold the percentage of beds occupied by Covid patients both in resuscitation and in the medical area. Currently they are dedicated to patients infected with the virus. 40% of UCI places, 10 percent above the government limit, and the 44% in the medical area, or 4% of the alarm threshold.

Under the pressure of the thousands of infections that occur every day in the region – 4,397 in the latest newsletter – in the next few days it is plausible that the pressure on hospitals will increase even more. Also because the effects of reinforced orange zone suddenly decided by the president Attilio fontana last Thursday they are destined to unfold no earlier than ten days.