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“With ambulances queuing in front of the emergency room, at this time another dramatic question arises: the impossibility of meeting the demands of those who feel ill due to diseases other than Covid”, Anelli denounces. And the reference is also to the case that occurred yesterday in via Sparano, where a woman, unconscious due to an illness, waited more than half an hour for the ambulance to arrive. After checking the presence of a nearby medical office building by building, the Volanti agents asked with the megaphone if there was a doctor on the street. A situation that confirms how dramatic the situation in Puglia is. “Hospitals are under pressure and run the risk of not holding out. And the death toll is increasing,” Anelli accused. What at the base of his cry of alarm also raises other data, such as the leap forward of those hospitalized: it has gone from an average of 30 more per day to an average of 60 more in the last two weeks. Growth trend, according to the Federation of Physicians, also for intensive care.
The request to declare the red zone by the doctors association comes the day when Puglia registered more than a thousand swabs in more than 4 thousand tests, with an incidence of more than 20 percent. There are currently 1,295 hospitalized, while there are 182 people in intensive care (two more than on Sunday). The occupation of the beds, as well as the Rt index, are some of the parameters that influence the decision of the Minister of Health to decree the red zone in one of the regions. Hypothesis that for Puglia, at least for the moment, Pierluigi Lopalco, health counselor, is not taken for granted. “If the decision comes today, then our parameters are still those of the orange zone,” says the epidemiologist. And he adds: the Rt, or contagion index, “is decreasing slightly. It is as if a car accelerated less, but the acceleration is still there.” In the Department of Health, the concern about the trend of infection in Puglia and the response of the health system is palpable. “Since the beginning of October I have always said that a national blockade it would have been the most effective measure, but the government preferred a different solution. And now we have to analyze the situation based on the parameters that have been introduced, ”says Councilor Lopalco.
Puglia’s red zone could be fixed on Friday. when the government decides whether or not to modify the previous measures. That for Puglia they are judged ineffective not only by the doctors union, but also by the operators on the front line. The appeal of the primary care unit of the Riuniti Polyclinic in Foggia is emblematic. “We are collapsing, we cannot hospitalize all the patients who would need it. We have been desperately asking for the intervention of Civil Protection for weeks – warns Gilda Cinnella – The emergency rooms no longer have even chairs, ambulances queue for hours before accompanying patients. And this happens everywhere in Puglia. “
