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ROME – Generalized closure throughout the country as soon as possible, or in a month, if the epidemic trend of Covid-19 in Italy is not reversed, we will find ourselves facing a “dramatic” situation since the system “will not be able to hold”. The strong appeal launched yesterday by the president of the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo) gathers the consensus of doctors and nurses from all over Italy Filippo Anelli: “A trend that has not changed, in 30 days we will have to deal with a large number of deaths.”
Anesthesiologists: a reasonable idea
“We hope to double hospitalizations and intensive care admissions next week if the trend does not change, and waiting for the benefits derived from the last Dpcm, which however will become evident no earlier than 10 days”, says the president of the Association . hospital resuscitators (Aaroi) Alessandro Vergallo. Intensive care “is already under pressure. Given this and in the absence of a territorial medicine, the proposal for a national closure,” he says, is reasonable at this point. “
Hospitals: immediate blockade for 6-8 weeks
Immediate block of 6-8 weeks. It is the appeal launched by Carlo Palermo, national secretary of Anaao Assomed, the hospital’s physicians union, who explains: “With worrying data on infections and deaths and with the Regions challenging the numbers that classify them as red zones, the only solution is a national closure of 6 – 8 weeks to flatten the curve. ” For Palermo, “we are very late and we can no longer witness this rebound of responsibility between the Regions and the government.” When the government closed everything in March, “we were better than now,” Palermo observes, sure that “if we continue with this trend, it is easy to foresee that we will have to make some selection between those who can be intubated and those who cannot. We will return to war medicine. . “.
The total closure, said yesterday Anelli della Fnomceo, who also spoke about the situation in Apulia, “is a strong request but very worrying signals are coming from many parts of the country. The situation shows a national health system on the ropes.” This week “we had an average of 1000 hospitalized per day; if the trend does not change, in the next 30 days, for the Immaculate Conception, we will have 30 thousand patients that will be added to the current 26 thousand”.
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“I talked about it with the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza – Rings said this morning – and I share my concerns. I imagine that the government in the next few hours will be able to evaluate and I believe that public opinion shares our concerns ”.
Meanwhile, South Tyrol, now a red zone, could soon even apply a tough blockade. “We have no alternatives, otherwise the entire health system collapses,” says the Councilor for Health Thomas widmann. “The collateral damage would be devastating if hospitals could no longer guarantee chemotherapy and surgery.” The issue will be analyzed tomorrow by the Provincial Council because “we are on the maximum time, the alarms can no longer be ignored.”
Anelli “actually expresses a very general opinion among doctors in our country. And those who have a different opinion, have it for their own reasons, not based on scientific data or reality.” Said it this morning Massimo Galli, Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Milan and director of the department of Infectious Diseases at the Sacco hospital, in Agorà, in Rai 3. “There is no doubt that the situation is out of control”, added Galli, explaining that the data ” show a steady increase in the spread of infection. ” So, regarding the eventuality of a specific closure: “regional differences can still be considered, but with care so as not to frustrate the result.” What, however, “we need to know right now is that, after a possible national shutdown, it is not that immediately afterwards we can do like last summer, otherwise we will be again.”
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Also the order of the doctors of Florence It joins the call of the national federation that, due to the number of hospitalizations and especially in intensive care, calls for a total closure as in March: without risk of collapse of the system. According to Teresita Mazzei, outgoing president, and her newly elected successor, Pietro Claudio Dattolo, we must close immediately without waiting for more data or “we run the risk of not being able to treat patients who fall ill with Covid, much less other pathologies: yes If the patient fractures his femur, suffers a heart attack, he may not receive adequate treatment. “
Nicola Addis, President of the Order of Physicians of Sassari, assures that “the pandemic is more serious than we think” and that the classification in the Yellow Zone of some Regions such as Sardinia “may lead to underestimate the problem. With the approach of seasonal diseases, the system will not be able to endure much more “. And that not only is it no longer able to care for Covid patients, but “not even to ensure treatment for citizens affected by other diseases, managing with great effort to guarantee only life-saving therapies.”
Gives Palermo The Covid emergency commissioner, Renato Costa, intervenes: “We are facing a tsunami that has overwhelmed everyone and the system can last 10 days: either stop the virus or stop the operating rooms.”
Alarm also caused by Ciro Carbone, President of the Order of Nurses of Naples: “In light of the epidemiological situation, the growing number of infections, the alarming data provided by the hospital management, non-compliance with the prescriptions by citizens, I ask on behalf of of all nurses in the province, more restrictive measures for the protection of public health. ”Carbone says“ enough to rebound responsibility. Politics plays the role of direction assigned to it by the Constitution. Now the risk is high, “says Carbone.” The nurses – says Carbone – are working in extreme conditions, with exhausting shifts, with insufficient and not always adequate Dpi and with the serious shortage of personnel reported several times. The number of infected nurses now it is uncontrollable. Let’s fix it before it’s done. too late. “
