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This is how the worst scenario raised just a few days ago by the regional health councilor Pierluigi Lopalco is taking place, with the loss of control of cases, especially in the main cities. For this reason, the Region is preparing to make those “strong decisions” that Lopalco himself feared. In this sense, the path has already been traced by the ASL Bat, which has decided to interrupt the ordinary activities of its hospitals to concentrate all forces, beds and personnel, in the management of the Coronavirus emergency. The stop refers to scheduled hospitalizations, except those impossible to postpone and of an oncological nature: “To ensure the correct handling of urgent cases, both Covid and non-Covid, the data on the occupation of the beds and the high number of of patients present in the emergency rooms of our hospitals – says the general director of ASL Bat Alessandro Delle Donne – we have decided to suspend all ordinary and planned hospitalizations. “The measures affect the Andria and Barletta hospitals and a few days later follow a A similar decision already taken for the Bisceglie hospital, which has become the province’s Covid hospital.
But also the two Polyclinics of Foggia and Bari are having more and more difficulties, with patients stopping in the emergency room waiting for new Covid beds to be available. “All the departments of Puglia are suffering a lot because there have been few hires in recent months and because the additional Covid positions created during the first wave have been dismantled. You live the day, without programming,” attacks Antonio Mazzarella, regional secretary of the CGIL. Doctors. So the situation is getting difficult in Puglia. To understand this, it is enough to mention a few figures: from October 19 to today, Covid admissions in Apulian hospitals have practically more than doubled, from 253 to 531. In intensive care, the number of hospitalized patients has passed from 14 to 52. Intensive care is the main concern in this regard. moment. According to a report by Altems of the Catholic University, Apulia has already occupied two thirds of the additional capacity of places, reaching 68 percent of the places occupied, and is together with Lazio and Sicily between the regions to be monitored.
That is why in the next few hours the election of ASL Bat will be extended to all of Puglia, as confirmed by Commissioner Lopalco: “Although the number of infections in Bari is stabilizing, we have Taranto and Foggia that grow and cancel the positive effect from Bari At the moment we have a plan to open other beds. In the next few hours the decision to make will be to choose the ordinary activities that will be blocked in the hospitals. ”So the idea is that of a regional measure that pushes the ASL to replicate with so many circulars what has already been done in the Bat. The goal is to concentrate all forces on the treatment of patients with Covid. Because the number of beds can be increased, but the staffing available for hospitals remains the same, given the difficulty of hiring new doctors and nurses in a short time. That is why in recent days urgent calls from ASL to find new staff have multiplied. That is what it is The Riuniti Polyclinic of Foggia is also doing it, which has issued a public notice “aimed at retired personnel, given the impossibility of proceeding with the hiring of medical personnel with subordinate employment” to hire four fixed-term emergency physicians, two anesthetists and resuscitators, three infectious diseases, four respiratory disease doctors. Precisely those departments that are struggling with the Covid emergency.
