Emergency physicians: “Dramatic situation, assaulted emergencies”. Curfew in Sicily from 23:00 to 05:00 – live coverage

“The situation in the First aid (Ps) it is dramatic, with very strong critics in all the Regions. Emergency rooms, these days, are besieged by patients with Covid-19 symptoms and there are lines of ambulances waiting ”. To take an alarming photo of the situation is the president of the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine (Simeu) Salvatore manca. Asked by the Ansa agency, it reported that the Covid rooms “are full and emergency rooms are becoming a ‘parking lot’ for these patients even for 3-5 days. We are all helping, but doctors and nurses are lacking. We can’t take it anymore. “

The situation is still very tense throughout Italy after they have registered in the last 24 hours 19 thousand new cases of contagion and 800 more hospitalizations. Just yesterday there were great difficulties in Genoa, precisely in the management of emergencies, and the prosecutor opened an investigation for the non-application of the Covid emergency plans. Today the Order of Nursing Professions of Genoa has published an open letter on Facebook in which it asks “urgently the President of the Liguria Region Giovanni toti order regional blockade because in intensive care places it is also necessary to have patients with ventilatory supports such as helmets and we are in full emergency ”due to the spread of covid-19 infections. “We must not delay any longer and take the appropriate initiatives to combat the current health emergency.” And, the letter continues, for this reason “instead of exasperating and mortifying nurses and health workers by threatening to block vacations, we must: suspend all electoral activities in the hospital and transfer them to accredited health facilities; immediately activate the intervention of Civil protection for the use of the previous rankings of doctors, nurses and oss ​​to be assigned to low intensity healthcare structures ”. And he concludes: “The nurses reject any useless attempt to face the coronavirus emergency, by suspending the legitimate rest from work, more in these dramatic moments than in addition to the daily fatigue, we see the nightmares, the faces, the pain of six months. There is no more time. “

Meanwhile, Sicily has also decided on a night curfew. In the order signed by the President of the Region Nello musumeci expected among other things: suspension of classroom lessons in secondary schools de la Isla with the contextual beginning of distance education; the reduction by half of the use of passenger seats in urban and extra-urban public transport, rail and maritime transport and the prohibition of circulation by any means from 11:00 p.m. to 05:00 a.m. the next day.