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In the Latin Police Headquarters there is already a list with the first 27 names: citizens of Naples or Caserta who crossed the border with Lazio to be treated in a hospital in the south of Pontino, taking off from the disasters of the Campania health system. They left the red zone despite the fact that in more than 90% of the cases they were mild ailments, sometimes very mild: “There are also those who came only for a small cough,” say the doctors of the Formia Emergency Department. the southernmost hospital in Lazio, 20 kilometers from the Garigliano river that marks the border with Campania.
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Only the ASL of Latina has counted almost 200 cases since the beginning of November (116 only from 4 to 11), especially in Formia, where on Monday more than 30% of the accesses to the emergency room involved patients from outside the region. There are those who arrived by car with the oxygen cylinder placed on the seat, others have spent up to 2,000 euros to be transported in a private ambulance. The phenomenon has now also moved to Frosinone, at the Cassino hospital, and threatens to approach Rome. The fact that Campania has made the double jump from the yellow zone to the red zone has not changed things. Rather. After an initial setback, the flow resumed, with higher numbers than before. That is why the districts of Lazio ASL have begun to send reports to the police station, attaching the names and surnames of patients who arrived at hospitals from outside the region.
“The effect of the” red zone “did not last long,” says Giorgio Casati, director general of ASL de Latina, the first to raise the alarm about this anomalous medical displacement. Dangerous trips, because there is a risk of saturating a health system, that of Lazio, which is still enduring, multiplying the number of beds each week. But it is an effort weighed down by the escapes from Campania that do not stop. “On November 13 and 14,” Casati continues, “the number of accesses from outside the region was reduced, also because news of these abnormal movements began to circulate. But already on the 15th the data started to grow again, especially in the Formia hospital ». On Monday, 16 patients arrived from Campania to the small emergency room in southern Pontino. More than 30% of the cases that the structure is used to treating on a daily basis. In short, more than before, despite the prescriptions. “Yesterday, however, the flow again registered a contraction – Latin ASL diggì resumes – patients arrive in waves.” Insidious comings and goings because until now, says the manager, “the phenomenon is controlled, but if access volumes continue to increase, it would become ungovernable.” How exactly is it governed? Last week Nicola Zingaretti’s council contacted Vincenzo De Luca’s, reaching a pact: the Campania doctors would propose to their clients where to be treated, without crossing the region. But it was obviously not enough. The spills continue. “We have already reported the names to the judicial authorities, to the Latina Police Headquarters,” continues the ASL director, “They will evaluate the case.” The issue is thorny and another border, that of the regulation and the dpcm, is blurred. When is travel necessary for health reasons? When is it justified to leave a red zone? To avoid hospitals in Naples or Caserta – and the events of Cardarelli have multiplied mistrust – “there are those who come here even with a stomachache or a little cough, many do not even have Covid”, he concludes. Casati. In fact, nine out of ten patients are sent home, without hospitalization.
Other times, however, the situation is dire. Two days ago, a 48-year-old man arrived from Piedimonte Matese, in the interior of Caserta, died in the Cassino hospital. He had been hiring a private ambulance, desperate, from home. In a very serious condition. “Even before we did the Covid swab, he already showed all the symptoms of interstitial pneumonia – says the director of the ASL of Frosinone, Pierpaola D’Alessandro – He was breathing with difficulty, when he arrived we took him immediately to the care unit intensive. He stayed there for 6 days and then passed away. Should he have been treated first in the hospital, in Campania? Probably yes”.
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