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The patient had been hospitalized for several days in the intensive care unit of Sant’Anna hospital
Covid, die alone in the hospital
Doctors forget to warn relatives
The victim is a retiree, had Covid – The death dates back to Friday, the family discovers it on Monday – Sant’Anna’s apologies: “The staff is under stress”
A 76-year-old patient died last Friday in a bed in Sant’Anna’s intensive care unit, but the hospital only notified the family three days later.
The story – for which the hospital management has already apologized – says a lot about the climate of these days, the tension and the fatigue that weighs on the shoulders of the staff, since, obviously, although very serious and “unacceptable” ( to say it with family members), the shortage is the consequence of a series of contributing causes, in the first place the conditions of fatigue and prostration, not only physical, of the medical and nursing personnel, in the “trenches” for weeks.
The patient, retired from Fino Mornasco, had been fighting for his life for days, sharing the same fate as many other victims of Covid-19, a destiny of forced loneliness and isolation, at least of the most beloved affections. Intubated and assisted in intensive care, on Friday he succumbed to fatigue. And his heart stopped beating. His relatives called for information on Monday, only then discovering, after 72 hours, the outcome of that long agony. Now they ask that their relative’s case be discussed, if only so that nothing like this happens again. The hospital directors, for their part, apologize. “We are saddened and sorry for the mistake and first of all we offer our condolences to the family – that is why we read in a note from the hospital and the entire Asst Lariana – the chief doctor, the doctor who followed the patient and the manager of the office Relations with the public immediately contacted the family to apologize and made themselves available to meet with relatives. The one that occurred is more unique than rare, especially because the family had been warned of the seriousness of the critical condition and of the imminent death, and within hours of that call the patient died. It should never happen and we certainly don’t want to make excuses recalling the pressure and stress that staff have been under for months due to the coronavirus emergency. We reiterate our regret for what happened and remain at the disposal of the family. Family members do not want to comment for the moment. They stand firm in their grief and say that they are committed to greeting their loved one with the funeral ceremony already scheduled for tomorrow.
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