Covid, the Hospital de la Feria reopens with 48 beds

“The temporary sanitary facilities installed in the pavilions of the Milan and Bergamo Fairs will reopen in the coming days and will guarantee the Lombard system the first 201 additional intensive care beds, which will be gradually occupied”. This was announced in a note by the president of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana, at the end of the Executive meeting that has approved a specific provision in this regard, proposed by the Councilor for Social Welfare, Giulio Gallera. “In Milan, the first 153 beds for intensive care are currently being activated,” explains Councilor Gallera, “divided into 4 modules with 14 seats, 3 with 16 seats and 7 with 7 seats. In Bergamo, on the other hand, 4 modules with 12 beds will operate. These new availabilities will be filled according to the saturation status of the hospitals ‘Covid’ intensive care units ».

“The current rapidly evolving epidemiological situation,” says President Fontana, “makes it necessary to adopt extraordinary organizational measures to improve the healthcare offer of beds for the Covid emergency, while trying to ensure adequate assistance to affected patients at the same time . of other pathologies. “The activation of the temporary sanitary facilities foresees the collaboration between the Fundación Policlínico IRCCS Cà Granda and the Ente Fiera Foundation for the reality of Milan and between the ASST Papa Giovanni XXII and the Just Authority for the Bergamo, with the participation of the relevant ATS.

“The operators of the Hub Hospitals in Lombardy will participate in the execution of this project – explains Gallera – and will ‘adopt’ one or more modules from the Fair’s hospitals”. The management of the healthcare activities in the different modules of the Milan Fair is entrusted to the Policlinico, Niguarda, San Gerardo Monza, San Matteo Pavia, Varese, Legnano / Busto and Humanitas hospitals. The hospitals of Lecco / Como, Grupo San Donato and Cremona will participate in a later phase. For Bergamo, two modules will be managed by Pope John XXIII and two by the Brescia «Spedali Civili».

“These Hubs – Gallera emphasizes – will guarantee the H24 presence of medical, nursing and support teams for the care needs of patients in the corresponding module. The Hubs, in turn, will have the support of the related “Spoke” hospitals for the management of the personnel of the medical and health professions in their internal departments and may proceed, if necessary, to new hires ». “The entire Lombardy system – conclude Fontana and Gallera – is working in unison to face this new phase of the Coronavirus emergency, both in support of the hospital network and for the benefit of the territorial one, by further strengthening the execution of swabs ”.

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