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“We are convinced that a place that by definition must be safe cannot and must not become a potential source of contagion.” It is written by Fp Cgil Palermo, in a note addressed to the director of theArnas civico, to prefect of Palermo, to the Public Service Inspectorate, concerned about the new phase of the emergency, with figures significantly higher than the first wave, and about the safety of workers and patients in the main hospital in the city.
The reference is to the outbreak that broke out within the II Medicine Unit of the Hospital Cívico de Palermo, a department without Covid, where nine positive cases have been confirmed. According to the Fp Cgil Palermo, the outbreak is “undoubtedly a serious consequence also of never-shared elections and the misapplication of the Sars-Cov-2 contagion prevention measures in this company.”
In the Civic, the Fp Cgil denounces, that the mandatory control committee has not yet been constituted, provided for in the protocols signed by the ministry and the union organization. Result: workers are not tested, there are still mixed departments and, in some areas, there are no separate paths or there are few filters at the entrance for relatives who come up to visit to look for patients in non-wards. COVID-19.
“The constitution of the special commission could have given, on the part of the workers directly affected and their representatives, an indication of the real risks and proposals for solutions”, wrote the general secretary Giovanni Cammuca, company secretary of the Fortunato sector, for the FP CGIL Palermo. Corrao, the provincial secretary Fp Cgil medici Domenico Mirabile and the company secretary, the doctors Franco La Barbera, who request the establishment and immediate convocation, to adopt the measures to contain the ongoing outbreak and prevent others.
However, as verified by FP Cgil, until October 14 the staff of the second non-Covid Medicine has never undergone a molecular swab and, therefore, the health surveillance provided for by the protocol has not been applied. Laboratory tests, in general, also in other departments, would have been performed episodically and after several months. The “promiscuity” that still exists between the various departments is of great concern to the union. In this specific case, the second division of Medicine, non-Covid, is located on the second floor of Pavilion 4, declared a Covid pavilion from the first wave of March-May. And it is located in the middle, as a sandwich, to the Department of Medicine Covid II and Pulmonology (also Covid), located on the third floor and the I Resuscitation, which also receives Covid positive patients, and which is located on the first floor . And again: on the ground floor there is on the one hand the Intensive Respiratory Therapy (Utir), which should accommodate additional Covid patients and on the other hand the Endoscopic Gastroenterology.
“This is a condition of unequivocal promiscuity between Covid and non-Covid departments, with staff employed in Covid departments using the same elevators as staff employed in non-Covid departments – add Cammuca, Corrao, Mirabile and La Barbera – Access to external consultations of the II Non-Covid Medicine, where only the temperature is detected, without value in the case of asymptomatic positives, combined with the very high probability that the relatives of the patients of the II Uoc non-Covid somehow manage to reach the bed of their relatives, lacking a real filter at the entrance that can prevent it, greatly exposes the patients and health personnel of the unit to the risk of contagion. ”For this reason, the FP CGIL requests the constitution of the committee for the application and verification of the rules of the normative protocol of hospital safety.
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