Coronavirus, emergency cases in RSA. The ministry warns Nas- Corriere.it



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The alert was already there. But what turned it into alarm yesterday was the news from Florence and Como. In Tuscany 1,103 elderly hospitalized in Rsa, nursing homes, are positive for Covid. Almost one in nine. And to them are added 100 operators. In the Rsa of Olgiate Comasco, however, those infected exceed 80% of the 72 guests. And that is why the structure has been locked in a sanitary bubble, with the general prohibition to enter and leave with the sole exception of staff who for family reasons cannot live 24 hours a day in the structure. A general figure, that of Tuscany, and a specific case, that of the province of Como, which make it clear that even in the RSA the second wave may be worse than the first.

Today the Ministry of Health will send a circular to all the Regions asking them to intensify controls on compliance with the guidelines that, precisely on RSA, have been drawn up by the Higher Institute of Health. And it has also already alerted the Nas, the nuclei of the carabinieri specialized in health issues. The guidelines dictate a series of rules, in total there are almost 80, that the RSA must respect not only for external visits – limited to scheduled entries and for no more than half an hour, maintaining distance and masks even once inside – but also for the control of internal personnel who, in the vast majority of cases, enter and leave the structure every day.

Strict limits, especially on outside visits., in which there may sometimes be the temptation to turn a blind eye, perhaps out of a spirit of charity and with the best of intentions. But with potentially devastating consequences given that precisely in the RSA there are the most fragile of the fragile and even with distancing one ends up living in close contact ”. It is clear – says the Undersecretary of Health Sandra Zampa – that the infection comes from outside. . And it is precisely for this reason that maximum attention is needed to comply with the guidelines of the Higher Institute of Health ”.

In the last few days it has been a crescendo. On Saturday the signals from the RSA Palena Foundation in Foggia had arrived: positive the 74 hospitalized elderly people, of which three died in the last hours, the 28 employees and also the president. The day before it was the turn of the RSA of Roccabianca, in the province of Parma, with 22 positives of the 34 hospitalized plus different operators. But outbreaks of this type are now widespread, which often makes it difficult to carry out care activity.. In the homes for the elderly in Villa Cozza di Macerata and Mogliano, in the Marche region, military doctors had to arrive to help the personnel decimated by the infection.

The Higher Institute of Health has analyzed the effects of the first wave of Covid on RSA. Between February 1 and the end of April this year there were 9,154 deaths in Italian structures. Of these, 680 were positive by swabbing, 7.4%. A further 3,092, 33.8%, had had “flu-like” symptoms. But the question mark remains on them because they had not been cleaned.

November 8, 2020 (change November 8, 2020 | 23:01)

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