“Open the Covid beds or we end up in the red zone”, the chaos in the manager of the Sicily Region

“Some doctors don’t want to treat Covid patients” After the publication of the audio, which led the manager to be accused of “manipulating” the data that would be sent to the government to prevent Sicily from slipping into the orange zone, La Rocca goes on the counterattack. “I was pissed off – says La Rocca – I told the managers of the hospital and the Asp that they had to apply the region’s plan by assigning beds to Covid patients but they didn’t, they didn’t have the attributes to impose themselves on some doctors” . And here the first prick: “Because the truth is that there are doctors who are sacrificing themselves by giving their soul in this emergency and there are those who, on the other hand, do not want to treat these patients to continue managing patients in intramoenia.”

“Those audios – he adds – were a stimulus to accelerate the activation of seats. I perceived on the part of some managers the lack of awareness on the one hand due to the increase in infections and on the other hand due to the general economic crisis and therefore the need to accelerate “.

“False medical histories not to assign beds to the sick Covid “In the reconstruction of what happened, La Rocca then explains that two days after sending the ‘voices’ (it was November 4) and ending the isolation for Covid being its negative buffer, he toured the Palermo hospitals:” I found 100 places in one day “.” In order not to empty some pavilions, to assign places to Covid patients – the super bureaucrat accuses – there are those who wrote invented diagnoses in medical records, I remember one that spoke of tuberculosis, but it was not true. “

“When I went to the ‘Cervello’ hospital in Palermo – he says – I saw that in the pediatric emergency service there was only one girl doing her homework. I found that there were 6-7 accesses a day in this pavilion that was only separated from a door of the Covid area: from there I received the desperate cries for help from the Covid patients. That morning the staff had asked for overtime and did not want to move to the room while someone was in need. So there was the possibility of finding places there but everything was still. “The pediatric emergency room was then allocated to Covid, the small patients selected for the children’s hospital.

The Minister of Health sends the inspectors After the publication of the audio, the Minister of Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia, had defined the situation as “serious and unacceptable”. “We need immediate clarity. It is intolerable to try to circumvent Covid data monitoring parameters. The government through Minister Speranza has already taken steps to send inspectors immediately to Palermo.”