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The number of positives working at the San Timoteo de Termoli hospital continues to increase, in parallel with the spread of the infection in the resident population of the Adriatic city, where cases have reached almost 280, with an exponential growth.
According to hospital sources So far 19 cases have been determineda, most of whom are interns of the nursing staff, the one who pays the most for the consequences of the virus in their workplace.
The departments involved are the Emergency medicine, first aid and resuscitation., that is, the same departments that welcome covid patients. Apart from a couple of doctors and a radiology technician, the others are nurses and Oss who received the communication from the molecular biology laboratory in recent days, confirming the worst fears.
Four have been in fiduciary isolation for some time and are about to go back to work in consideration of the national directive that opens this possibility for those who are asymptomatic, given the shortage of white coats that at this time of emergency weighs heavily on the health system .
There are also some cases of positivity in Cardarelli di Campobasso and Veneziale in Isernia. However, the contagion has spread in particular to San Timoteo, which is not a Covid hospital but whose Emergency Service must welcome (and it would be absurd otherwise) even those positive people who need immediate attention or people whose positivity is not it has still been established that they suffer from severe symptoms and discomfort. When positivity is determined, first with a rapid antigenic swab and then with a molecular one, patients are transferred to Infectious Diseases in Campobasso.
However, it may take hours and even days before the move, as the infectious disease situation in the capital is not easy. Admissions have increased dramatically in recent weeks to saturate the capacity of available spots. An inescapable side effect therefore, welcoming patients with symptoms and in need of medical attention in San Timoteo, in the identified gray area that is, however, actually the emergency room. Here doctors and nurses try to cope, with limited resources, with patients who arrive waiting to be transferred to Cardarelli, an operation that can be performed even within days.
An extraordinary plan to reorganize the San Timoteo is being considered, aimed at avoiding the closure of some departments, and consequently depriving the population of a fundamental service. The study of exceptional buffer measures for the Adriatico hospital is in the news at this time.
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