Covid, now there is a war in Sicilian health, La Rocca accuses the managers: “They did nothing”

Words even more disruptive than those spoken in chat with Sicilian health managers. Mario La Rocca, general director of Strategic Planning of the Department of Health relaunches and accuses doctors that “they do not want to deal with cases of covid” to the point of “writing medical records with invented diagnoses so as not to empty some departments.” Words that do not add water to the fire of the controversy that has broken out after La Sicilia and lasicilia.it have spread their chat audios on WhatsApp and that do add fuel to the fire.

“In order not to empty some departments, to assign beds to Covid patients, there are those who wrote invented diagnoses in medical records, I remember one that spoke of tuberculosis, but it was not true,” La Rocca told ANSA speaking. also of “obstruction” by some doctors to avoid the activation of places for patients with coronavirus and general directors of hospitals “incapable” of applying the Musumeci government plan to increase places.

“While I was at home for Covid – he said – I noticed that some hospital managers had not done anything for three weeks, but they should have applied the Region’s plan for the activation of beds for patients with Coronavirus. On November 4, I sent those audios in the chat, two days later, having the negative swab, I visited some hospitals in Palermo, I found 100 places in one day ”, he added.

On the audio of the chat with words that the majority seemed pressured to declare more places than there were in view of the Government’s judgment on which zone to assign to Sicily (later it will be orange, but hopefully yellow) La Rocca does not take a step back : “I was pissed off: I told the hospital and Asp managers that they had to apply the Region’s plan by assigning beds to Covid patients but they didn’t, they didn’t have the attributes to impose themselves on some doctors: because the truth is that there are doctors who are sacrificing giving their soul in this emergency and there are those who, on the other hand, do not want to take care of these patients to continue managing patients in intramoenia ».

La Rocca is a river in flood: «When I went to the Cervello hospital in Palermo, I saw that in the pediatric emergency department there was only one girl doing her homework. I discovered that there were 6-7 accesses a day in this room that was separated only by a door from the Covid area: from there I received the desperate cries for help from the Covid patients. That morning, the staff had asked for overtime and did not want to move into the apartment while there was someone in need. Therefore, there was the possibility of finding Covid beds there, but everything was still. The pediatric emergency room was then allocated to Covid, the small patients selected for the children’s hospital.