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TURIN. A long summit in the Region, three decisions. First: the quick swab will replace the molecular classic in almost all cases, which however should be done if the first gives a positive result. Second: stricter classification by staff 118 to avoid all patients being taken to the emergency room. Third: citizens who go directly to the emergency room, without going through 118, will not be hospitalized automatically: a careful evaluation of the symptoms will be made, if the situation allows it, they will be entrusted to the doctors of the “Usca”, the special units of continuity care. , to continue at home. Planned expansion of the distribution of medical aids for home therapy, in particular oxygen therapy cylinders.
Under pressure
These are the new guidelines, in many ways mandatory, decided during a summit that ended a few minutes ago. Current Giancarlo Zulian, recently appointed new “commander-in-chief” of the Covid emergency, former Minister of Health Ferruccio Fazio, Professor Giovanni Di Perri, head of Infectious Diseases at Amedeo di Savoia, epidemiologist Massimo Vineis, Commissioner of Turin ASL Carlo Picco. Objective: to reduce the pressure on the emergency services and hospitals, authorizing only strictly necessary hospitalizations, and to find a solution to the exponential growth in the number of tampons that is putting pressure on the network of family doctors and pediatricians, as well as the laboratories in charge to analyze them. Another variant of the emergency that is exhausting Piedmont.
