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“Today we have about 10,000 intensive care places and we will reach 11,300 in the next month. There are currently around 3300 ICU patients, then there is no pressure on these departments“. Are the words that, referring to covid patients admitted to health centers, said the emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri at the conference ‘Finance and the country system one year later’ and Ansa reported yesterday.
The pressure on intensive care is probably not comparable to that of the first wave, when the resuscitation of the hospitals collapsed and in Molise – probably everyone will remember it because it was an emblematic case – two people from Bergamo were hospitalized. Nowadays in the intensive care unit from Cardarelli di Campobasso are hospitalized 8 people in the 12 places available. “We have 30 beds available for Covid patients who need intensive care,” Governor Donato Toma said at the end of the broadcast of ‘Titolo V’ on Rai Tre.
The true emergency is Infectious Diseases. In this department become the last weeks extra big, extended from other areas of a hospital – the Cardarelli di Campobasso – which now ‘explodes’ and in which hospitalizations increase every day, the resurgence of the virus has taken on tragic and sad contours, with dozens of people dying.
Here are some facts attesting to the death boom detected in the last month and a half in the Infectious Diseases ward: 38 people in 48 days (from October 1 to today, November 17). A number much lower than the seven deaths recorded in the same period in the ICU. In detail, last October twelve patients died in Infectious (four in intensive care). A figure almost doubled in the first 15 days of November: 26 deaths from Infectious Diseases (4 in Intensive Care), the last just today. A sign that the epidemic is accelerating in our region, that at the same time the virus is ‘biting’ and perhaps has most lethal effects precisely in Infectious.
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What’s going on? Why do people die more accurately in Infectious? Or is the virus so silent that it manages to kill in a very short time, aggravating the health conditions of patients who are not even intubated? Why do the patients’ relatives report that their relatives are left alone? Yesterday we reported on the dramatic story of Michele Mancini told by her son Francesco.
So we die from Covid al Cardarelli. “My father called me to ask me to take him away, the doctor told me that this is a war”
Not to mention the drama of a family from Isernia who learned of the disappearance of their 95-year-old grandmother hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases Pavilion, whose death was reported to them after almost 24 hours. “To the sadness for the loss of a person so important to us was added disbelief when we discovered that he had died about 24 hours before and that no one had deigned to notify the family,” the relatives wrote in a published letter. since Isnews.
Without wanting to put the ‘cross’ on health workers, whose commitment everyone recognizes and who are doing everything possible to follow all patients, we are probably beginning to glimpse first ‘cracks’: healthcare is in trouble.
Doctors, nurses and oss, the trench of the ‘war against the virus’, have been working tirelessly for almost a year, apart from the ‘truce’ that the virus has granted this summer and whose resurgence forces us to rush to install beds and wards ‘transformation’ for patients with other pathologistsme. “Here we are waging the third world war”, the words that one of the infectious doctors said to Michele Mancini’s family.
the healthcare workers, under stress and under pressure, who would probably like to vent and testify about the critical problems that are experienced daily in the room, cannot do so due to a very strict code of conduct in place for employees of the regional health authority. In practice, a gag that makes it difficult even for information operators to report what is happening on the other side of the ‘fence’.
“We are facing an emergency: doctors, nurses and obs“, He explains Carmine Vasile, regional secretary of the Fials union and operator of the Cardarelli hospital. “We currently have the same staff that was there at the end of the first wave of the pandemic, but with an aggravating circumstance: the same staff now He is working in two more departments, dropped further because some carriers tested positive or are in quarantine and because some operators hired by VAT have received assignments with a 36-month contract in other regions of Italy and they decided to leave. Therefore, the personnel are at the end of their forces. If the solution is the army, so be it. “
Vasile then underlines that “today the number of patients has tripled. There is a doctor for 50 patients to perform at the same time.. Unfortunately, as highlighted by eminent scientific studies and recognized accredited journals in the sector if there is a shortage of staff, healthcare decreases and the risk of patient mortality increases. The self-denial of the staff is unfortunately at its peak, despite this the risk to patients has increased ”.
It is not surprising that there is a ministerial decree (number 109 of 1988) that establishes hospital standards to guarantee adequate medical care. In the case of Infectious Diseases, it provides for a 40-bed module 11 medici and 35 nurses. Doctors working in Infectious Diseases at the Cardarelli Hospital in Campobasso there are 5.
And to think that in the same hospital in the capital another wing is being prepared dedicated to covid patient care: this time in the Urology department, on the second floor of the hospital. It seems that here we want to create a kind of ‘Covid Medicine’, basically a department dedicated to the care of people with multiple pathologies and who have developed a covid-19 disease.
In this complicated situation, the first reports to the police, which could lead to detailed reports.
The Nas Carabinieri, in close contact with the Prosecutor’s Office, carry out inspections and investigations verify compliance with the protocols in hospitals and nursing homes in the region. Last Sunday the military inspected the Cardarelli hospital to verify the correct separation between ‘dirty’ and ‘clean’ roads to know if the contagion among health workers was closely related to any deficiency of this type.
Meanwhile, the virus spreads hand in hand with fear of contagion. Just think that yesterday morning (16 November) in an hour and a half the Asrem Prevention Office received 400 phone calls from alarmed citizens asking for a swab.
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