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It is an emergency for the beds in the internal wards of the hospital (Pneumology, Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases).
From the comparison, region by region, of beds in 2018 and those activated in 2020 with the current number of hospitalizations due to Covid-19, a “dramatic picture” emerges: the Piedmont is 191% saturated, Aosta Valley tol 229%, Lombardy at 129%, Liguria 118%, Lazio at 91%, Campania all’87%. Only Molise and FVG are below the 40% occupancy threshold (34%).
19 Regions or PA are in alarm. This was revealed by Anaao-Assomed, the largest union of hospital doctors.
This is the percentage of saturation of Covid hospital beds in internist hospital wards, region by region, obtained by Anaao from the comparison with the availability data of 2018, the latest available: Aosta Valley 229%, Piedmont 191%, Province Autonomous Bolzano 129%, Lombardy 129%, Liguria 118%, Lazio 91%, Campania 87%, Autonomous Province of Trento 82%, Abruzzo 77%, Sicily 73%, Puglia 71%, Emilia Romagna 66%, Tuscany 66%, Veneto 64%, Umbria n 60%, Calabria 54%, Basilicata 52%, Marche 49%, Sardinia 44%, Molise 34%, Friuli Venezia Giulia 34%.
“Hospitals are now on the brink of collapse due to a shortage of healthcare personnel and the large number of Covid patients that continue to arrive in our wards.” The president of the Federation of Internists (Fadoi), Dario Manfellotto, commenting on the analysis of Anaao-Assomed on the occupation of hospital beds at this time of the Covid 19 pandemic. “In internal medicine – Manfellotto assures – patients are guaranteed all treatments, even sub-intensive ones, including ‘oxygen therapy and various forms of non-invasive ventilation, trying to avoid reaching intubation or death. In addition, internists continue to assist patients suffering from other major diseases, such as kidney failure, chronic bronchitis, heart failure, sepsis, pneumonia, but the possibilities of accessing hospitals are shrinking for these patients. ” “And it is clear – he concludes – that a likely consequence will be the increasing difficulty in hospitalizing and guaranteeing quality standards of care for patients with non-Covid chronic exacerbations.”
