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Filippo Anelli, president of the federation of medical orders (Fnomceo), why are you calling for a general shutdown for one month?
Because I’m worried, scared, he responds out of breath at the end of the evening.
If this continues, the NHS cannot. Each bed dedicated to Covid is removed to patients with other pathologies, commonly called ordinary. Apart from the ordinary. They have pancreatic tumors, strokes, serious heart disease. There are already accumulated delays and thousands of patients will end up in queues.
They can also be effective, and I wholeheartedly hope, as a doctor and citizen, that this system will slow down the speed of the terrifying epidemic. The way it was explained was certainly not effectiveTell people the meaning of the colored areas.
The Italians did not understand that ending up in the yellow zone, where mitigation measures are less stringent than in the orange and red zones, is not the same as being able to do one’s own thing. The images of crowded old towns and crowded beaches are gruesome. proof that the seriousness of the situation in our country has not been understood. The worst is yet to come.
When will the worst come?
Between Christmas and early 2021, flu cases will be added to those of Covid and the emergency room will be full of people with the same symptoms and fear of having caught the coronavirus. We still have time to avoid all this with a blockade extended to the whole of Italy, which will last for a month. The alternative is for the health service to raise the white flag.
Do you speak like a doctor, but don’t think of restaurateurs, merchants, all the citizens who, with partial closures, can at least continue to make their businesses survive?
I believe that for them it is also more important that their family members survive with chronic diseases that run the risk of not being able to be treated promptly.
What result could a new total block have?
In a couple of weeks we could reach the peak of the second wave and thus the decline would begin with the progressive decongestion of hospitals.
The data tell us that if this curve does not cool down in 30 days we will have another 30 thousand people in the hospital, resuscitation would exceed 5 thousand occupied places. If the trend was last week, we could count 10,000 more deaths.
Have the hospital staff been reinforced thanks also to the provisions of the Dpcm on the emergency?
Among the medical and nursing staff we have 6-7 thousand more health workers, including postgraduate income in the fourth and fifth years.
Shouldn’t doctors cooperate rather than criticize in an emergency?
Mine are not critical, they are outbursts, stimuli, appeals. And I cannot help but denounce the fact that in many regions medical specialists are used as internists to cover the staff of the Covid wards. In Piedmont, doctors also have to perform nursing duties due to understaffing.
Did you have any contact with the government after your public outburst?
The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, called me. He told me that he shares my concern but is confident in the effects of these measures.
You are a family doctor in Bari, what do you tell us?
Can you ask me another question please? Or would you rather me open a new chapter of outbursts?
November 9, 2020 (change November 9, 2020 | 22:40)
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