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“A war”. This is the metaphor used by Massimo Cannavò, an Air Force medical lieutenant and today an oncological surgeon at Asst Sette Laghi, to describe the fight against the coronavirus. A war in which there is trenches of doctors and nurses, but in which in later “We all have to do our part.”
A part that is composed not only of masks, distance and hand hygiene but also care. “The emergency rooms today are full of patients with respiratory symptoms – explains the doctor – and my call is therefore to ensure that each one of us is safe and we do not expose ourselves to those small domestic or sports accidents that in life of all Groups could also be trivial but being handled now in the ER is really deleterious. The pressure on emergency rooms in our territories is in fact very high to the point that a check Advanced health point in the square of the Ugo Mara barracks in Solbiate Olona to transfer less serious patients to hospitals in the areas less affected by the covid in this second wave.
Lombardy provinces that now suffer less but were the epicenter during the first wave and that Massimo Cannavò knows well. “I was one of the doctors who went as volunteers to the areas most affected by the first wave.” He had chosen one of the busiest hospitals, Cremona, with staff at the end. He left one morning in March, in total confinement to immerse himself in a situation of extreme difficulty. Entering a new environment, with unknown universities, procedures and paths was not easy. After a first round of bewilderment, he quickened his pace: it was he who received Mattia, the eighteen-year-old in desperate conditions who was intubated. A story that marked him deeply for his professional but also human drama.
A story that today Dr. Cannavò, during his emergency shift at the Seven Lakes hospitals, hopes that he will never have to live again. “A few days ago a 22-year-old boy arrived who was in very serious condition,” he says, “and I immediately remembered those moments I lived in Cremona. Today, of course: we are better prepared, we know the disease better and we certainly have more means to combat it. But it all depends on the numbers.
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