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TORINO. Sthere are more that do not work than those that work. And since they are ventilators, lung ventilators to secure Covid patients in intensive care, those that do not work, or do not work as they should, have been pushed aside as a precaution.
A problem. A problem between Piedmont and Rome, taking into account that they are teams delivered through the structure of commissioners led by Domenico Arcuri, to whom the Region has already written to point out the situation. Meanwhile the fans in question have been taken out of service, most have not even started, and will be temporarily replaced by those that the Region has just bought with donation funds, through the Scr race: temporarily because in the end the balance must return.
The story, surprising and in many respects disturbing, takes us back to the hectic months of Phase one of the epidemic: when everything arrived in Piedmont, in terms of individual protections and equipment, without everything being always adequate and regulatory.
Now here we go again. “In fact, a certain number of devices have presented problems – confirms Health Councilor Luigi Icardi -. That is why we have prudently withdrawn them, taking note of the limits indicated by the health workers within the Crisis Unit, and we have written to the commissioner informing him of the situation and asking him to inform the manufacturer.
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What problems are, technically, it is not known: we speak generically of a gap between the declared and actual actions. But it should not be a trivial matter if the anesthesiologists and then the technicians who have been entrusted with the evaluation, a kind of post-test, have strongly advised to dispense with it in the face of a use that could be reckless and harmful. A matter of reliability, it seems to be understood: doubly necessary in the case of essential equipment for the management of respiratory failure, sometimes severe, triggered by pneumonia caused by the virus. As mentioned, some machines, few of them, work as expected. Many others do not. How many household appliances are we talking about? A few dozen, as far as we know.
The approach is essential given the veil of silence that hangs over this story in a delicate period, suspended between fears of an epidemic recovery and the arrival of the new anti-Covid vaccine. There remains the need to clarify, reiterates between the Crisis Unit and the Dirmei, the operational arm of the Region in contrasting the epidemic, “considering that this type of equipment cannot be joked”: several “adverse events” arose during the phase of counter-proof, duly recorded in the reports that health companies sent in the last two weeks. Now it is a question of whether the fans will be sent back to Rome and replaced by others. Meanwhile, those purchased from Scr and in the delivery phase are put online: quality devices, specified by the Region. –
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