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Florence, November 8, 2020 – A tsunami. Worst than first wave epidemic. And in the retirement homes There is the risk of a second, more serious and unjustifiable. massacre of the elderly. The number of positive it rises day after day, like an uncontrolled tide. Only in the province of Florence 650 hosts are infected in 22 structures, taking into account that 60 swabs are being processed. People who are cared for in geriatric residences, with the intervention of the Usca (doctor and nurses) and Girot (with geriatrician) teams. A different strategy from the one implemented during the first phase of the emergency, aimed at preserving hospitals from a wave of hospitalizations that would have already made the hospital system plummet. The most serious elderly are sent to the emergency room.
Two arrived in Careggi on November 3, November 1 on November 2, 2 on November 1 and 7 on October 28. Few compared to the number of positives found in Rsa and few compared to those who arrived last April. CGIL and CISL cry out in alarm. The fear that many RSA do not have sufficient means to respond to the growing health needs of the elderly population, the most fragile and exposed to the most serious consequences of the disease, leaves room for a horrible suspicion that we would like to be able to dispel without a shadow of a doubt, and it is that civil Tuscany does not do everything possible to save all human lives. It is intolerable that the date of birth becomes a death sentence.
The CGIL calls for a plan to be urgently implemented in the next few hours. “A general strategy that will be implemented immediately, for users, but also for the general stability of our regional social health system – he says Alessandro Giorgetti of the FP CGIL Florence – As we have seen in the first wave, it is not possible to manage cases within the RSA. “The number of positives is too high, and the number of workers in infected structures is not enough to guarantee assistance: not even with the support of ASL staff, which is also insufficient for the needs of hospitals.” It is necessary to optimize resources by opening structures dedicated to infected RSA hosts where to offer the best assistance by concentrating forces “, concludes Giorgetti.
It also scares the number of operators positive at Rsa, 310, replaced in service by nurses from the ASL Toscana center. Where, in any case, the contagion numbers are increasing: with 580 positive toilets, 790 if we also count those of Careggi and Meyer. “The staff can’t take it anymore: every day fainting, illnesses, there have also been nurses who preferred to resign, exasperated … If this continues, civil protection intervention will be necessary,” he says. Simone baldacci, CGIL Delegate in the RSU of the ASL of central Tuscany.
Go back to hunting for nurses In the rankings, reference is made to those who had not responded to the previous call because it is possible that they are already employed in another place: the hope is to be able to recover at least 200.
Concern also for Cisl. “So much, especially for the most fragile people, who at the moment are the ones who most need assistance. You can’t waste any more time, you need quick intervention,” he says. Nicola Burzio, CISL Secretary Fp Florence-Prato – We ask the institutions to apply for coverage to insure the operators and patients, before the problem spreads catastrophically. “
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