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She had been ill for a week and had all the symptoms of covid but when she arrived at the hospital due to the worsening of her health conditions. had to wait more than eleven hours to get a bed where, however, sadly she died a few days after admission. It is the tragedy of Antonella Abbatangelo, 41-year-old woman from Trani and mother of a 14-month-old boy who died of covid last Thursday at the Dimiccoli hospital in Barletta, where she was hospitalized for about five days. A story that symbolizes the enormous difficulties of the national health system that is now collapsing due to the emergency of the coronavirus.
“We don’t have the right staff and tools.” and “it was probably the ineffective measures to combat the virus that killed her” was the bitter outburst of cardiologist Peppe Carpagnano, on duty at the same hospital where Antonella died. Also, before arriving in Barletta, the day before, the 41-year-old woman had been taken to Trani hospital, but the local emergency room had sent her home because she was not equipped for Covid treatment. Only the next day, on the advice of the referring doctor, the relatives went to the Barletta emergency department where, after a long wait, she was hospitalized.
How the Corriere del Mezzogiorno has rebuilt, here the woman, who faced with the coronavirus did not suffer from any particular pathology, he stayed only five days before his death because his condition was now too serious. In this period of time, the relatives managed to obtain only fragmentary information about his state of health until the phone call on Thursday announcing his death. “After a 12-hour night shift” you arrive “home devastated” and receive a message from your colleague to inform you that the patient you told him about is dead, “the cardiologist wrote on social media:” We don’t have the staff and the right tools. “
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