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Stress in intensive care. Not only because there is an increase of 50-60 new patients every day, but because among the coronavirus emergency commissioner, Domenico Arcuri, and Regions there is an exchange of accusations about the lack of activation of 60 percent of the new positions. And the government sides with the commissioner. The Minister for Regional Affairs, Francesco Bocca, pronounces on the governors: “Maximum availability and maximum transparency, whoever needs help must say so, but this must be done before intervening at work and school. In recent months, lung ventilators have been distributed everywhere, as Arcuri confirms: the problem is where the ventilators have gone, we expect real-time responses from the regions.
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The confusion about the actual saturation data is also growing and this does not help to clarify. Let’s start with this: yesterday the news spread that, according to a study by the control room of the Ministry of Health and the Higher Institute of Health, there are ten regions at risk. In particular, Abruzzo, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Liguria, Lombardy, Puglia, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria and Valle d’Aosta have a high or high probability of exceeding the threshold of 30 percent of occupied places in the next month. The highest level of risk is for Lombardy and Liguria. However, yesterday the Ministry of Health denied this scenario, to date the two regions with the highest percentage of places occupied in intensive care by Covid-19 have 14-15 percent, therefore far from the figure that triggers the alarm . And even individual regions have published data to show that there is no saturation.
From Emilia-Romagna, for example, they explain: “Taking into account the 61 patients hospitalized to date in intensive care, the employment rate of our available regional network is approximately 10 percent.” The situation in Abruzzo is similar, which according to an investigation by Altems has already run out of places: «There is no emergency. The Region has more than 120 intensive care places, to date 28 have been incorporated. There are 11 patients; therefore, around 10 per cent of the total and just over a third of the additional places ”. The same reasoning from Liguria: “250 places can be activated, 20-30 are occupied”. The truth is in the middle: to date there are no regions with exhausted intensive care units, but the alarm in the control room serves as a warning, because if this growth rate continues, the employment level of 30 percent will soon be exceeded. hundred.
In intensive care, however, yesterday the unprecedented confrontation between Commissioner Arcuri and the Regions took place. Little reminder: the government had launched a plan to activate 3,553 new places that were added to the 5,179 existing ones. It was slow and there are only 1449 new beds ready. Arcuri participated yesterday in the State Conference of Regions and highlighted that it has already distributed 3,109 fans, which is why a greater number of places were activated. With a letter to all the presidents, he asked when are the intensive care updates. Arcuri: «What happened to the 1,600 unused fans? We have another 1,500 available, but before we distribute them we would like to see the 1,600 intensive care beds for which we have already shipped activated ventilators. According to Arcuri, Campania had 335 intensive care beds before Covid, the government sent 231 ventilators for intensive care and 167 for subintensive. Today 433 seats are activated, but it should be 566. The governors did not like the attack of the commissioner. From Emilia-Romagna they respond that 618 of the 641 planned places have already been activated. From Abruzzo the president Marco Marsilio Counterattacks: «The truth is that, in an emergency, slow procedures were used, I would say Soviets. They asked us for plans, counter plans, in the end they assigned me the powers of commissioner just a few days ago. During the Regiones-Arcuri summit, the problem of replacing the masks also arose, while the commissioner, also in the letter, urges the governors on the pads: we have acquired another 5 million tests, how do you want to use them?
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