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There are already about fifteen, this morning alone, this December 31, accesses to the emergency room of the Santa Chiara hospital for injuries related to pedestrian falls on icy roads and sidewalks. In fact, the persistence of low temperatures after the snowfalls on Monday and Tuesday has favored the formation of royal slabs in many areas of the capital.
Among the most serious cases, that of an old woman who slipped down Via Endrici, in front of the Archbishop’s entrance, shortly before 9.45 am, and was rescued by medical personnel who intervened in an ambulance.
Since Tuesday, more than fifty people have had to seek medical attention for broken legs, dislocated shoulders, sprained ankles, various injuries. As much as to push the managers and emergency personnel of the Santa Chiara to launch a real cry of alarm. The amount of work, in fact, will aggravate a situation already complicated by the management of the Covid-19 emergency and by the usual workload.
An anomalous wave of falls – usually after a snowfall there are at most a dozen accesses to the emergency room for trauma of this type – that motivated the doctors to address an appeal to all: “We invite everyone to move with the utmost caution and , above all, in the case of the elderly, stay at home except for extreme necessities whenever there is danger of ice on the roads.
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