[ad_1]
Ordinary bed occupancy greater than 90% in the wards of the 4 hospitals COVID-19 From the capital: Tor Vergata, Umberto I, Spallanzani and Gemelli, the emergency rooms burst in with long lines like those that affected several hospitals last night. While infections increase – yesterday in Rome the peak of 307 new positives was reached – so are the patients who need hospital care. Also yesterday, hospitalizations increased by 32 units and 5 more cases ended up in intensive care compared to 85 on Wednesday. Thus, in Rome, as announced by the Regional Health Department, even formally “non-Covid” hospitals have re-hospitalized positive symptomatic patients.
Covid, intensive care, CTS alarm: hospitalizations greater than 20%
Covid Rome, individual swabs: green light for all tests in a hundred laboratories
I ALMOST
In Sant’Andrea, for example, seven patients were hospitalized between yesterday and Wednesday, occupying almost half of the equipped places: 16. These units had been created during the emergency, in the acute phase of the pandemic and then were gradually closed. It consists of four modules for four beds each that have now been reopened while in view of next week, the hospital – which has also made the air treatment unit in the wards more efficient – is ready to open another 10 beds . In the Casilino hospital there are ten patients positive for the coronavirus and hospitalized while in the emergency room the situation is on the verge of collapse, so much so that the management has posted a notice that says: “To guarantee the reception of the many patients who may be positive for Covid and to protect everyone’s safety, those who are waiting without a real urgency are invited to contact their doctor. “The race to make the additional beds work also in” non-Covid “hospitals has therefore begun, because There are many patients waiting. From San Camillo to Pertini to San Giovanni. The Region intends to provide 450 more places for the 4 “Hub Covid” (622) without counting the hospitalizations available at “radio” centers such as the Celio military hospital and the covid-hospital Casal Palocco.
“THE RISK”
“What is happening – comments Massimo Andreoni, director of the Italian Society for Infectious Diseases and chief physician at Tor Vergata, clearly shows that the virus remains in all its danger and what several colleagues stated has been shown to be incorrect”. Another 60 beds are being opened in Tor Vergata, currently occupied by hospitalized patients in Internal Medicine, for coronavirus positive patients. Of the 48 emergency rooms, 44 are already occupied and the 6 intensive care places are full. That is why it will be necessary to also increase the availability of places on this front. At the Umberto I Polyclinic the beds are practically occupied. On Wednesday, the number of people hospitalized by Covid surpassed 180 units and the second emergency room is expected to open by the end of the month. In Spallanzani, which has 206 ordinary places and another 35 in intensive care, employment was yesterday at 185 for the former and 26 for the latter. At the Gemelli, including Columbus, there are 212 people hospitalized while, due to the number of accesses, numerous ambulances remain blocked, with patients on board, outside the emergency room, according to the Nursind union.
© REPRODUCTION RESERVED
[ad_2]
