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New blockades or other major restrictions had to be established first. Now the Region is telling the truth about the situation in the hospitals of Puglia. It’s hard to judge Tommaso fiore, former regional health councilor in the council of Nichi Vendola, former university professor and director of intensive care at the Policlinico di Bari, on the management of the second wave.
The epidemiologist and health councilor, Pierluigi Lopalco, said that the time for a serious blockade has come because the pressure on the health system is enormous. Agree?
“That the pressure on the health system is very strong, I think it is there for all to see. It can be seen in the overcrowding of emergency rooms, especially in Covid hospitals, which can no longer cope with putting patients and many times place them in a chair and an oxygen tank: a solution that is not adapted to the severity of the disease is applied. How to solve this problem must be explained by an epidemiologist. Obviously, he believes that the confinement measures will not work. I think that even in Puglia, as is happening in the rest of Italy, the curve will soften. Therefore, today the real problem does not seem to me to be closed yet, but rather to rush to equip new beds and allow that people find effective treatments. But I declare that I am starting from a consideration of common sense: to see the effects of a measure you have to wait three weeks “.
The epidemiologist Lopalco: hospitals in difficulty, a two or three week confinement is needed immediately
by Antonello Cassano
Obviously in the Region they have data available that push them to ask for tougher measures.
“This is probably the case, I think the question should not be asked of me.”
Anelli (Order of doctors): “Puglia becomes a red region, the virus travels at a worrying speed”
The president of the Medical Orders, Filippo Anelli, asks the Region to pressure the government to take Puglia into the red zone. What you think?
“The rings of truth asked for a squeeze much earlier on this situation. And when he asked for it the first time, then, in my opinion, he was right. If they had listened, today we would be in a calmer situation. Now keep asking and so on. which has been consistent with their positions for some time. The real problem here is that everything had to be done first. “
Where do you see the most critical situations in Puglia?
“Certainly in the areas of Bari and Foggia, which have never been full of beds. Here in Bari, although with a delay, in a week it is possible to convert many of the No Covid structures definitively into Covid structures. In Foggiano no: or the contagion is reduced or not possible. A situation complicated by the fact that there has been no regional coordination “.
However, already on October 18 in the Republic, Gilda Cinnella, head of intensive care in Riuniti di Foggia, warned that Puglia was seriously behind in managing the second wave. Was that delay recovered a month later?
“No, not entirely. Only in these days is an immense organizational effort being made to try to recover it. But we had to get down to work a month ago with greater determination.”
The peak is expected from November 27. In these ten days, hospitals will be under even more pressure. Perhaps it is time to implement another restriction.
“Ah yes, it can be reduced. But this is not my territory. There are those who make prediction models for a living. Now someone has to say that even though Puglia is in the orange zone, there will be no reversal of the trend and that, therefore, it is necessary to restrict even more.
Lopalco made it clear.
“Here is no longer the time to make people understand, but to declare. That is why I cannot fully adhere to a hypothesis of this type: not because I do not believe that there are no activities that can be interrupted, but because I would like the government regional tells the truth about the situation in hospitals and intensive care.
It has been 12 days since Puglia entered the orange zone.
“What we are seeing now is the effect of the previous and useless first measure of the government, among other things seriously questioned by our leaders. Including President Michele Emiliano, who went on television to declare that it was important to save celebrations for weddings. “
Do you need clearer communication?
“You need clarity and democracy. You can’t handle an epidemic by playing the guitar and giving loose information about the situation, so once you can go to the wedding and the other you can’t walk down the street. We have a national government and a shameful regional government. “.
