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Year 2020, November 11, the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic time. Cardarelli Hospital, one patient among many, suspected of Covid-19, is in the pre-triage area of the emergency room overrun by patients. He goes to the bathroom and dies. In the arm it has a venous access for sampling. He did the quick swab and practiced the traditional one. You will have to do the CT scan and, like everyone else, you will have to do it to establish the diagnosis, the stage of the disease, look for a bed measured in its clinical severity. But the virus is sneaky, it doesn’t tell you how bad your lungs are and how much air you have left to breathe. For this reason, the patient has the strength to stand up on his own, but falls to the ground. Someone opens the door and takes photos and videos that, as always in the media circus, reach the web, the smashed social media stand, find fertile ground in the flag battles. The pain loses the composure on which all tragedy feeds and is mixed with the broken echoes of indignation, of the voracious search for the culprit.
In Cardarelli yesterday four people died in the emergency room for a rapid negative evolution of Covid-19 as described in the scientific literature. They were all old, but not old enough to have to die. In the south of the city the scene does not change: the San Leonardo de Castellammare hospital, here also those who are positive for hospitalization die on a stretcher, in the emergency room, where they wait hours before entering the room. Despite the organizational and human effort of health workers and managers, there are no longer spaces to care and treat. “But now -explain the leaders of ASL Napoli 3 Sud, competent in territoriality- the situation has been like this for days, we have been sick on stretchers, in chairs, in folding seats, wherever they can be kept under observation for treatment. and don’t send them back to “. home. “The pandemic is a disaster and the white coats wonder why everything flows as if nothing.
«A shocking video was sent to us – comments the Regional Councilor for Green Europe Francesco Emilio Borrelli referring to Cardarelli’s death, that is why we asked the hospital management to investigate the matter. An internal investigation was opened, the carabinieri were alerted and an autopsy was ordered on the deceased patient. At such a delicate moment, maximum transparency and maximum rigor are required. To find the body of the patient, with probable Covid-19 infection, it was the same hospital staff who noticed the excessive permanence of the man in the bathroom. The video showing the man’s body was filmed during the retreat of rescuers who went to find a stretcher on which to place the body. Our condolences to the family of this person. Also come the condolences of Cardarelli’s senior management: “It is not possible at this time to establish what was the cause of the disease that caused his death – says the manager. Giuseppe Longo, we have diligently initiated any necessary investigation. The deepest condolences from the strategic direction and from all the staff who dedicate every day to curbing the violence of this pandemic goes to the man’s family. It is unfortunate – he concludes – that similar events are exploited in order to build terrible and dangerous suggestions in public opinion. Precisely for this reason, and out of respect for the family’s suffering, we initiated an internal investigation aimed at finding out who and how the video was filmed and disseminated. It should be noted that all patients in the suspicious area, like everyone else, are always guaranteed continuous assistance from the on-call personnel ”.
Four people quickly died of Covid in Cardarelli, like many in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday in Castellammare. They were placed on ambulance stretchers inside the hospital waiting for a bed. Like a silent war that takes the old and the weak, although among those who died yesterday there is also a 44 year old. The man, a cardiopath from Torre Annunziata, died a few minutes after an 84-year-old from Vico Equense, a 71-year-old from Pompeii and another old man from an RSA in Torre Annunziata, where the balance already speaks of three deaths from COVID- 19. The previous afternoon there had been another death: an elderly woman who came from another nursing home, from Pimonte in the Lattari Mountains, had learned that her positive husband had passed away just five days ago. Yesterday one more death always in the emergency zone. The sound of the ambulances does not stop. Central 118 is inundated with phone calls every day and operators are forced to choose where to send the ambulance. In households where no help arrives, citizens often choose to get in the car and queue. The sick are also assisted by car, since in Cotugno and Cardarelli oxygen cylinders are taken abroad. It happened to Michele, who on Tuesday waited in the car since morning to enter the emergency room. The desperate wife, at eleven o’clock at night, launched a video call, on social networks, to ask for help. Until San Leonardo’s nurses returned to take him inside for treatment. The hope is at least to get into the hallways. It is like in war. The dead are on the agenda, the hospital morgue no longer has room for coffins. It is also impossible to trace the age and origin of the deceased. “Doctors and nurses should stop and search medical records, but no one stops. They cannot attend to these requests because they do not have time to do so, they would remove him from the care of other patients. Gaetano D’Onofrio, says the health director of the ASL Na3 Sud: “The deceased elderly were hospitalized and not outside the emergency room, from the province and treated regularly.” In San Leonardo they emptied an entire wing of the hospital to make room for Covid shelters. “We will not be a Covid Hospital”, specifies the director of San Leonardo, Rosalba Santarpia, but in fact, there are already 38 hospitalized on the front line and another 30 beds will be active at the weekend.
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